Your unfuturity of government. The house ways and Means Committee held a hearing on the difficulties in caring for asian americans, including the lack of recently priced longterm care for Senior Citizens. This is 3. 5 hours. Should wood members at their desk please take their seat. Ways and Means Committee will come to order. Good morning, welcome. We are here to discuss a difficult issue that confronts nearly every family in our nation. That is how to care for our loved ones as they age. It is appropriate we work to address this matter in november which is all summers Awareness Month. And u. S. National Family Caregivers month. Its a deeply personal issue for many of us in the room and for those who have not personally struggled to ensure an older relative received the care they need, you most certainly know someone in your life who has. Navigating a fragmented and insufficient longterm care system can not only be confusing and emotionally taxing but also enormously expensive, indeed,
Americans, including the lack of reasonably priced longterm care for Senior Citizens and their caregivers. A half hours. And [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [gavel bangs] would members and guests please take their seats . The ways and Means Committee will come to order. Good morning and welcome. We are here to discuss a difficult issue that confronts nearly every family and our nation, and that is how to care for our loved ones as they age. It is certainly appropriate that we work to address this matter in november, which is alzheimers Awareness Month and caregiversal family month. This is a deeply personal issue for many of us in the room, and for those who have not personally struggled to ensure an older relative receives the care they need, you most certainly know someone in your life who has. Navigating a fragmented and insufficient longterm care system can be not only confusing and emotionally taxing but also enormously expensive indeed, even unaffordable. Roun
Continue beyd 110 a. M. Eacmember other than the majority anminority leaders and the minority whip shall be limited to five minutes. The chair now recognizes the gentleman fromennsylvania, mr. Thomon, for five minutes mr. Thompson thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, this coming sunday of s the 26th anniversary the house of representatives passing the northern American Free trade agreement, nafta. This agreement with our two closest trading partners, canada outdated , has become as time has passed. Economies have flourished. Now, we are in desperate need of updating nafta to meet modern day economic demands. Many of us have staff who are younger than nafta, and we world hasree that the changed an awful lot in the last three decades. Needs to bring the United Statesmexciocanada or usmca, to a vote immediately to keep trade fair. Nd a vote on usmca is long overdue. 400 days more than since President Trump announced this historic agreement, and have often anada given usmca the green light
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Feel that something must be done. So one route of placing them on hold wouldi be special calling of Police Officers. Police officers are quick to place someone on hold that are a harm to themselves. But disabled is another, and Police Officers in my opinion are not the best agency to do that. Thats one reason we now have psychiatrists a psychiatrist and a psychiatric Nurse Practitioner on the ride along with us. They have been extremely helpful when we approach that individual and recognize that this person does not have the capacity to care for themselves. So address your question specifically, we have a very Good Relationship with the police, but at times, it seems their mission is different than ours, and we are able to help the people that need help with the Behavioral Health team of street medicine. Commissioner veronese so i thank you for that explanation. And i think whats important for this commission to hear is that the Police Officers job is part of the criminal justice job.