Reasonably priced longterm care for Senior Citizens. This is three and half hours. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] 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, even unaffordable. Aroundtheclock inhome care costs about 180,000 a ye
[inaudible conversations] with members please take their seats. The ways and Means Committee will come to order. Good morning and welcome. We arere here to discuss a difficult issue that confronts nearly every family in the nation and that is care for our loved ones as they age. Its certainly appropriate we work to address this matter in november which is alzheimers Awareness Month and u. S. National Family Caregivers month. A deeply personal issue for many of usit in the room and for thoe who havent personally struggled to ensure an older relative receives the care they need you must certainly know somebody in your life who has. Navigating a fragmented and insufficient longterm care system if you not only confused and emotionally taxing, but also enormously extend the indeed even unaffordable. Around the clock inhome care costs about 180,000 per year. It costs over 80,000 a year to live in a nursing home, and assisted living costs 43,000 a year. These weigh heavily on aging americans
Please welcome to the stage Michael Bennett. Hello, iowa. You are a Patient Group of people. I didnt know how patient. And i want to thank you for allowing all of us to impose on you. I want to particularly thank you for the kindness that youve shown me and my family as weve travelled the state of iowa. I want to thank my friend, tom harken, my chairman who is right here, tom, thank you for your leadership. And thank you for your friendship. Ive been in the senate, as tom knows, for ten years. Its hard for me to believe its been a decade. Weve done two committees together. Tonight i want to talk to you not as a senator but as the only superintendent of schools who has ever run for president of the United States. I worked with kids in the Denver Public schools before i went to the senate. Its a School District thats got about a billion dollar budget. For reference, thats about three times the size of a certain municipality in the state of indiana. Im just saying. It has 95,000 children
Please welcome to thestage Michael Bennett. Hello, iowa. You are a Patient Group of people. I didnt know how patient. And i want to thank you for allowing all of us to impose on you. I want to particularly thank you for the kindness youve shown me and my family as we travel the state of iowa. And i want to thank my friend tom parton, my chairman was right here. Tom, thank you for your leadership and thank youfor your friendship. Ive been in the senate as condos for 10 years. Its hard for me to believe that its been a decade. We served on two committees together. But tonight i want to talk to you not as a senator but as the only superintendent of schools who has ever run for president of the United States. I worked for the kids in the Denver Public schools before i went to the senate. Its a School District got about 1 billion budget. For reference, thats about three times the size of a certain municipality in the state of indiana. Im just saying. It has 95,000 children in it. Most of wh
John delaney, senator cory booker, senator michael, marianne williamson, and the husband of senator Amy Klobuchar met voters. Good morning everyone. Thank you for coming air this morning. Im the chair of the National Democratic city committee. Thank you. This is one of those weekends where i think most folks in this room realize how lucky we are to be democrats here in New Hampshire and the special place we have with the first in the nation primary. Fantastic convention yesterday which i know many of you are part of. And it is just going to keep rolling between now and the first time mary in febrile. Have a long program this morning, great program, we are very fortunate. A lot of the candidates realize that if you want to win New Hampshire, you have to win nashua. Have a lot of people who are coming through. Before we hear from congressman john delaney, i want to think sponsors for todays event, we to help fundunds arming biggest bolt elections, our campaign for our need is for electio