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In our first story, you will meet the most vulnerable victims of the economic downturn. For some people these days losing a job and health insurance could mean losing life-saving care as cash-strapped public hospitals are forced to cut critical charity care.
Scott Pelley reports from Las Vegas, where cancer sufferers like Roy Scales were recently told the county hospital would no longer provide outpatient oncology treatment. Scales, a laid-off security guard, has spent months searching for treatment for his lung cancer to no avail. "Where am I going to find help? I am messing with a disease that will kill you."
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In our second story, you’ll hear first hand from an escaped Iranian prisoner of the torture he endured over eight years for being a symbol of Iranian student revolutionaries because, unbeknownst to him, his appearance at a student rally landed him on an international magazine cover.
Ahmad Batebi began his ordeal with 17 months of solitary confinement. "They kept the light on 24 hours a day?.This kind of torture doesn’t affect you physically, but mentally and emotionally," he tells CNN’s Anderson Cooper. He says there were also brutal physical beatings over the years. As you will see in the report, Iran is a country where Islamic law-sanctioned punishments like death by stoning, slow hangings and amputations still occur.
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Then it’s an interview that 60 Minutes has chased for more than a decade: Dolly Parton. She tells Morley Safer about her poor childhood, her storied career and her latest business project, a Broadway musical based on her hit film, "9 to five." But when she tells a story from her early childhood, is she giving Safer the business? Tune in Sunday to hear one of the strangest and funniest stories 60 Minutes has ever heard; it is a story right from the barnyard!
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Those stories, and Andy Rooney takes on the country’s debt, on this Sunday’s 60 Minutes, April 5 at 7 p.m. ET/PT.
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