The Response: America's Story - Health

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Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2017

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Linda discovers she can donate a kidney to her sick partner Reuben and save his life – while taking charge of the TV remote control forever. All the stories to The Response: America's Story were sent via smartphone from across the USA. This is the second of four podcasts and includes insights into the impact of Obamacare.

This episode was compiled and recorded in Kansas City and we hear technology and healthcare insights from KCUR reporters Laura Ziegler and Alex Smith.

Presenter: Shaimaa Khalil Producers: Kevin Core for the BBC World Service with APM’s Laurie Stern

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0:00.0	This is a podcast from the BBC World Service with American Public Media. When Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States,
0:18.0	the countdown of his first 100 days in office began.
0:22.0	It's a milestone applied to every modern president and the BBC
0:25.7	World Service and American public media decided to market with a unique project.
0:33.6	As political experts and media commentators came up with their assessment, we handed it over to
0:38.7	you.
0:40.0	All you had to do was use a smartphone with a voice recorder and email us a sound file telling
0:45.2	us your story of the first 100 days of the Trump presidency.
0:50.2	Working with public radio stations from West Virginia to Kansas City to San Antonio and Boise, Idaho,
0:55.4	the four programs took a ground-level view of what matters to Americans during a time of unprecedented
1:01.0	change.
1:02.0	You're about to hear the results. For our second
1:05.6	episode we were in Kansas City, Missouri at KCUR and asked for your stories about
1:10.6	a massive issue in American politics. You're about to hear a
1:14.3	wedding day turn into a medical emergency and how a diagnosis of obesity spurred
1:19.0	one woman to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro. but we'll begin with the best gift ever.
1:25.4	My name is Linda Birch and I live near Pasadena, California.
1:29.8	I first met Rubin at a New Year's Eve party. It was the end of 1999. He was just a great
1:36.5	guy. He was a lot of fun and we used to go out all the time and do things and we never really thought or knew that underneath it all he was sick.
1:47.0	Just one time he slipped and fell and he had breaking his toe and one thing led to another and he ended up in the ER room with Geng Green and we were dealing with diabetes and reduced kidney function.
2:03.0	He had to start on dialysis and he just kept on getting sicker.
2:08.0	And I found a renal support network.
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