Awaiting the start of this forum on Health Care Costs to get underway. It will start in just a moment live here on cspan2. We told you about many so of the programing on cspan2 today. Over on cspan Hillary Clinton and former Vice President al gore will be appearing at a Campaign Rally in miami. Live coverage of that getting underway at 3 00 p. M. Eastern. Then tonight we have live hourlong interviews separately with third Party President ial candidates. You will hear from libertarian gary johnson. He starts at 8 00 p. M. The green partys jill stein. She is after that at 9 00. Well take your phone calls and tweets to the candidates. 10 second warning. On behalf of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University i want to welcome you to this important discussion about the effect much rising Health Care Costs on economic mobility and economic wellbeing. My name is bill beach. Im the Vice President of policy research at mercatus on behalf of the scholars and the staff welcome to this great
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Americans 85 and older, our oldest old, are the Fastest Growing segment of our population. And this is the very population that is most at risk of the multiple and interacting Health Problems that can lead to disability and a need for longterm care. At the same time, declining birthrates mean that there will be fewer Family Members and paid caregivers to care for our nations growing aging population. Today, there are approximately seven potential caregivers for each person over 80, as this chart indicates. By the year 2030, there will be only for. And by 2050, the number drops to fewer than one in three. Fewer than three. As a consequence, more people will have to rely on fewer caregivers. What does that mean . What are the implications for the quality of care that will be given . It is clear that we have to do more to support Family Caregivers and to recruit and retain a robust and competent longterm care workforce. While there is a need for both public and private financing of Longte
And in a speech be he delivered on the 10th of december this year, so a couple of days a he said there is no excuse for 750 billion u. S. Dollars in food waste per year. When we only need 80 billion u. S. Dollars to feed the hungry. And this comes from a businessman, one of the biggest businessmen there is. So he is really sincere. Im very convinced he is. Nevertheless, roughly i onethird of our food is waste, and i think others you will have better figures of that, but lets say in kilograms or pounds or whatever measurements, but onethird lets keep it at onethird. And it gets lost or it gets wasted. This washington causes emissions to the environment, pesticides, fertilizers, methane, and that is 23 times more potent greenhouse effect than co2. Than the food leads to loss of amounts of labor income, water, you know, agriculture uses loads of water. Its the first user of waters which, fresh water we have lack of in the world as well. Fertile soils get lost. In developing countries, of