The hearing will come to order. Good morning. Protecting american seniors from scammers who seek to defraud them is a central goal of this committee. In the past six years, we have hearings on frauds and scams we must find ways to combat those who steal billions from our seniors and block moving and robo calls. Callers generated more than 26 billion unwanted calls that reached mobile phones. When land lines are included, the number source to 48 billion. Alone, residents received 93 million robo calls last year. Of 73 callsverage to each person in our state. So far, scammers are on pace to generate more than 58 billion billion unwanted calls. Scammers are initiated by offshore robo callers using new theirlogies to perpetuate schemes. We will focus on a practice called spoofing. Scammers to mask their identity by replacing their caller id with one that fits their story. See the internal sheriffservice or department pop up, they understandably understand answer the phone. They are worried
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Prices. Before we get to the report. Most people know what the aarp, explain what the Public Policy institute does there. Sure. The Public Policy institute is the internal think tank and it is our job to take a look at all of the issues that aarp works on and make sure that we have policies that help guide our positions and our advocacy work. And Ongoing Research on Prescription Drug prices. Tack us through what your latest report looked into. So this report is part of an ongoing series that aarp has been doing since 2004 and our latest report focused on specialty Prescription Drugs. More specifically we looked at 97 widely used special tee Prescription Drugs and on average their prices increased at three times the rate of inflation. Describe specialty Prescription Drug and a regular Prescription Drug. Specialty dont have a set definition. They typically are for conditions that affect people the rest of their drives and they might be injected or infused and may require refrigeration. A
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Host kate boler, where did you get the title everything happens for a reason and other lies i have loved . Oh, i think it just came to me because it was one of the many boomerang theologies that people give to you when youre sick is surely everythings gonna workout. God is making a way. When i wrote the book, i was trying to explore that maybe this was a lie i loved all along. So the book is kind of a theological excavation project where im trying to dig into my own secret terrible belief. Host how sick are you . Well, stage 4, cancer is not decorative, so its its its hard. But i am doing better than a lot of people. I moved from the Crisis Management to the more chronic part of this. But thankfully, so far, drugs and doctors and all kinds of things are making a way. Host went to first find out you have cancer . Guest two years ago, 35, and theres no cancer in my family. I didnt imagine that it was possible. And then one day out of the blue i got a phone call that explained my stomach