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Witnesses and audience members. Thank you everyone for joining with us today as we all bear up under covid19 and address technologically to coming together. We will begin with Opening Statements by myself and the Ranking Member. Follow the by testimony from our witnesses and the opportunity for each member to ask questions. We will dispense of our practice of observing givens rule and instead go to go in order of seniority for questions. Alternating between minority and majority. Members will be responsible for muting and unmuting themselves throughout the proceedings. I thank you all for your patience as we navigate this new technology in order to continue serving our country in this great time of need. With that, i would like to again welcome everybody to the ways and means social subcommittee virtual hearing on the impact of covid19 on Social Security and its beneficiaries. Again, let me add my thanks to the member and of course our witnesses who have joined us today at the ways an
Later, live sunday starting at noon eastern on American History tv on cspan 3. Social security chief actuary steven goss recently testified on the current status of Social Security trust funds. He also discussed potential solutions for making sure the funds stay solvent. This house ways and means subcommittee hearing just under an hour. Good morning. We have decided that were going to start the hearing early. Since you all are here or since youre here, is that all right with you . Sounds just great. We all know Social Security provides important retirement and disability benefits that millions of americans rely on. Yet, as we will hear again today, Congress Needs to act so we can be sure that those benefits will be there for our children and our grandchildren just like they are for seniors and individuals with disabilities today. Today well hear from Social Security chief actuary about the findings in this years report, and while a report adds some good news for the Disability Insuranc
The Board Benefit cuts if congress doesnt act. Once they are kpaused Social Security will only be able to pay 77 of promised benefits. Thats wrong and unacceptable. They also tell us today it would take 12. 5 trillion to make it valueva solvant. The number gets bigger every year. In 2011 when i first held a hearing on a Trustees Report it was 6. 5 trillion. Fixing it will require tough choices, choices that will effect the lives of millions of americans. I can tell you they arent easy choices. We all may have differing views on how to solve it. But not talking about the problem wont make it go away. If we wake until the trust funds are exhausted the choices become more difficult and more or some of the options wont be on the table any longer. Last december aintrodui introdu friend to fix Social Security. Mr. Larson also has a plan and i appreciate my friends recognition and Social Security is in trouble. While our plans are very different they both fix Social Security permanently. I be
They have several prisons within our state that take it so that the cost for that does not come out of our per diem there. So, again, heres our creativity. As you heard, i have a long history with managed Care Organizations and whether you like them or dont or whatever, its the world we live in and they are successful. So some of the principles that those managed Care Organizations have used, we have applied in the department of corrections. The first one being and im very proud of this is called the summer of Health Care Benefits and it is the same document or a similar document that you receive when you sign up for your own insurance. It basically tells you what is or is not covered and is or is not eligible and basically, what the Insurance Company will and will not pay for, but for us, it listsous what services are eligible to the inmates and which arent and it puts everyone on the same Playing Field because the inmates understand which services will be covered and which ones are n