Good morning everybody. Senate will come to order. The title of todays hearing is keeping our promise to older adults and people with disabilities. The status of Social Security today. Today we will hear from Social Security Administration Commissioner omalley. We are grateful you are here. Commissioner omalley was confirmed last year. And i dont think i have to remind anyone in this room or listening and how important this program called Social Security is. It will serve over 68 million americans this year. Without Social Security benefits experts estimate about four in 10 Older Americans will have incomes below the poverty line. That means 640,000 pennsylvanians are lifted out of poverty solely because of Social Security. Serves people with disabilities. In january of this year Social Security provided almost 12 billion disability benefits to 8. 5 million beneficiaries. Unfortunately, while our population has aged the demand for Social Security has increased support for Social Securi
Commissioner. The hearing is about two hours. Good morning everybody. Senate will come to order. The title of todays hearing is keeping our promise to older adults and people with disabilities. The status of Social Security today. Today we will hear from Social Security Administration Commissioner omalley. We are grateful you are here. Commissioner omalley was confirmed last year. And i dont think i have to remind anyone in this room or listening and how important this program called Social Security is. It will serve over 68 million americans this year. Without Social Security benefits experts estimate about four in 10 Older Americans will have incomes below the poverty line. That means 640,000 pennsylvanians are lifted out of poverty solely because of Social Security. Serves people with disabilities. In january of this year Social Security provided almost 12 billion disability benefits to 8. 5 million beneficiaries. Unfortunately, while our population has aged the demand for Social Se
That was unfortunate. And anybody who thinks that the heat wasnt raised was saying that there was not going to be a deal i think is incorrect. But thats not why i asked for the one minute. What i asked for the one minute is, colleagues, the American People are relying on us to come together and to agree on things they know are very important to them and their families and their communities and their country. Let us not accuse one another back and forth of bad faith and lets lower the heat and lets try to get that work done. Well, the gentleman wouldnt yield to me but im glad to yield to him. Mr. Mccarthy oh mr. Hoyer my friend, the majority leader. Mr. Mccarthy my friend is correct in a lot but i will explain understand one thing. In this job and when we run and were passionate about our beliefs, my parents always told me if you cant handle the heat you probably shouldnt run but the one thing that should happen, if we want to come to a conclusion, just as you and i and my good friend s
Been successful in reducing the rate of growth in costs. We have a lot of demographic factors putting it higher, but im very proud of the business were in, and the job that hospital its doing as part of the Healthcare System in america today. [applause] well, all these people are really smart. I dont need to ask them probing question. I prefer to let them talk. But i want too ask you i want to take the next step here. And if youre basically the only layman here, and okay, were sort of stumbling in the right direction. Lets posit that. And science is out there, as patrick said, but we have to figure out a way to make it accessible and usable to all of us. Given where we are, either in Public Health or in the Healthcare System itself, the Delivery System, concisely as you can, what do you think the greatest challenges we still face are, and what are the greatest opportunities, one or two of each. I will just give you an example. You mentioned we needed to do more with primary care. There
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