Green pursued philanthropy for her daughter Maisie, set up a GoFundMe page, and demanded a meeting with the insurance company. You wanted them to look her in the eye. >> Yes.I wanted them to look her in the eye and say, "We're the reason you're going to die." >> The insurance board blinked. Maisie received the genetic therapy drug, Zenma, in 2019. One dose, one hour, and the effect was what.>> You can't even describe it. Amazing. Amazing.Maisy, it changed her life. It changed our life. It was what she neede ...

Men and women can't be friends because the sex part always gets in the way. >> I understand that the end of this movie was changed after you met Michelle. >> Yeah, that's true. That's true.>> What was it going to be. >> I mean, I've been single for 10 years and I hadn't met anybody. And so, I had this idea that, you know, at that point, you know, they they they run into each other after some time goes by.They have this conversation on the streets in New York. And then the last shot was going to be just the ...

Here's a quote from Norman Lear. >> Okay. >> Rob's movies all have a human dearness to them. Do you think all your movies have dearness.>> I don't know about dearness. I try to >> I try to uh you know uh put out the human experience. I when I was 17 years old, I was in a summer theater and I was an apprentice.I wasn't an actor. I was building scenery and stuff and I saw this play. It was A Thousand Clowns by Herb Gardner and it was very funny and very serious and emotional and he blended those two things.An ...

Is there a bad guy in this equation. Employers who won't pay. Drug companies that are charging enormous fees for these drugs.>> The manufacturer is not the bad guy. The company's not the bad guy. Really, there's no bad guys here, Scott.We just have to recognize as society that something's changed. We have a new miraculous and expensive mode of treatment and we society need to recognize that we need to act jointly to absorb those costs. Economist Jonathan Gruber says in his view, absorbing those costs will r ...

60 Minutes reported from Hong Kong in 2019, when months of pro-democracy demonstrations turned increasingly violent. Jimmy Lai, a media company owner and democracy advocate, spoke with Holly Williams at the time about criticizing the Chinese government. Lai, now 78, was arrested in 2020, and convicted on Monday in a landmark national security trial of conspiring with others to collude with foreign forces to endanger national security and conspiracy to publish seditious articles. "60 Minutes" is the most suc ...

Today, there are more than 300 highcost genetic therapies in clinical trials, some for diseases suffered by millions of patients. >> I liken it to a coming tsunami, which is basically going to overwhelm the employer sponsored insurance system. >> Few know healthc care finance as well as Jonathan Gruber.He's chair of economics at MIT and an architect of the Affordable Care Act. What happens when you have genetic cell and gene therapies that treat cancer or heart disease, which are much more common. That's wh ...

Tiny Maisie was born in 2017. CG Green says that from the start, her daughter was mysteriously ill. When you brought Maisie home, what did you begin to notice.>> Um, initially she just sounded like she had a cold all the time. Um, she just sounded really congested. Um, and after, um, I'd say like 2 weeks, I noticed that Maisie like wasn't holding her head at all.She was just like jello. Her head like neck was like jello- and her head would just flop. >> CG had a feeling something was terribly wrong.Somethin ...

This past month, we were invited by the Bundesphere, the German military, to observe basic training as a squad of recruits ran punishing drills, honing the skills they would need to defend against an enemy assault. >> Everything we are training here for could be one day real. We don't hope that. Um, but we're preparing exactly for that >> because of the war in Ukraine. >> Yes, of course. >> A new class of drugs can save the lives of children like Maisie. Trouble is, one dose costs millions of dollars. >> It ...

60 Minutes rewind. He may be as close as you get to a sure thing in Hollywood. Over the last 10 years, Rob Reiner has defied the odds, directing seven films without, as he puts it, a single stinker.But he is a lot more than just a director. He's a screenwriter and a partner in a Hollywood studio and a comedy actor to boot. Although he doesn't have much time for that anymore.He's a lot older and fatter and bolder than when you first met him. And Rob Reiner may not be the name you remember him by. >> You are ...

60 Minutes rewind. For many of us, Rob Reiner will forever be Meathead, the liberal foil to Archie Bunker in CBS's All in the Family. But it's as a director that he's really made his mark with some of the most memorable movies ever.When Harry Met Sally, Stand by Me, A Few Good Men, and The Princess Bride. But Reiner's first film almost didn't get made. All he had for This is Spinal Tap about a failing madeup British rock band was a fourpage outline.No script because the movie was totally improvised. Release ...