Sane up for the healthier michigan program, and im wondering if you cover cataract surgery. They said the reason ive been asking, ive been trying to get someone to pay for his cataract surgery, and the optometrist told hum if he had the surgery he have normal vision, and he has lost his job and has not been able to drive and this would enable this person to get back and about a contributing member of society and obviously improve their life. So i think as you hear those stories, there are compelling stories and our governor was really great about gets around the state and hearing the stories and its not true of the entire population but theres a segment of the population that has not been getting services, and their life will improve and they will be able to be more contributing members of society, and that, i think, is part of the argument as well. I would just add, if youre in a state that has already expanded above 138 , youre going to be bringing it down probably, and this doesnt o
Need 3. 6 trillion in investment and thats in all a number that includes things other than transportation but we need 3. 6 trillion in investment by the time the decade is through in order to raise it to appropriate levels. Now thats an all in number as i said. The thing is our infrastructure deficit is only going to get worse without action. We cannot meet the needs of growing country and a growing economy by simply maintaining our current level of effort. We must do more. Over the next generation this will become even more apparent because the country will demand more of this Transportation System than it ever has. By 2050 the system will need to move up to 100 million new people and 14 billion additional tons of freight almost twice what we currently do. Even if Congress Today funded our Transportation System at recent levels we would still be on the same track towards slower , less safe nation where rushhour becomes a rush all afternoon. So what we need right now is to rally around
It is not realistically within the realm of possibility. This committee follow the murray ryan agreement and mark up at a trillion, 14 billion. That was the deal, and we will stick with the deal. The second issue that was raised is on the subject of entitlement reform. One of the reasons the mandatory programs are growing are because of the success of people who represent agencies at this table. Social security, people live longer. So we have more people than might have been anticipated by the actuaries in 1950 and 1960 when people died from heart attacks and so on instead of the challenges of chronic illness. One of the reasons that medicare is also an issue is because, again, people are living longer, and we need to manage the chronic illness. But there are paths forward to bend the curve, one of which is, again, from research. Much has been said about alzheimers. And, gosh, if we could crack that code, it would have a tremendous impact. So it all kind of goes hand in hand that, one,
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