Overwhelmingly, and it made it with Social Security actuarially sound for the next half century. That was 1983. So, those folks knew how to get along. Chairman nelson, Ranking Member collins and members of the committee, thank you for holding this hearing. And especially for the opportunity to testify about the future of the longterm policy. The perspective that im about to share comes from my work over the past 20 years of the office of management and budget as a person responsible for the Medicaid Budget. And also the last ten or 15 years consulting to a nursing home providers and assisted living providers and working with a number of my colleagues here on the panel and ideas including the class act. I just want to start by saying as many of you have noted we spent over 200 billion but we pay for very little care. We depend on over 60 million americans to provide most of the care and they provide it on paid and they do this because most americans are not insured against the financial
How much work they are doing. And these charities are doing sort of, you know, they are really the unsung hero of the humanitarian crisis in syria. Over and over again the kuwaitis are the only theyre the ones that are first donor in every case for humanitarian work. I think theres an aspect of this, too, that is sort of i think i mentioned one example that where do you exactly draw the line on this . So, you know, if youre supporting a hospital that is run by a particular brigade is it humanitarian aid . Does it have sort of a lethal component . Its a very sort of spectrum. Its not sort of black and white. And, you know, i think that you raise one of the questions that makes this so complicated is that, yeah a lot of money probably goes to things that are very much needed on the ground, you know, these rebel brigade understand if theyre controlling an area, it also means that, you know, the bakery. That also means the hospital. And it means providing for people. And no one else is doi
Support to perform the routine activities of daily living and to maintain their quality of life and their independence if possible. I appreciate you calling this hearing to try to improve our current long term financing and Delivery System. As the senate cochair of the Bipartisan Congressional Task disease, izheimers am particularly concerned and sensitive to the needs of alzheimers patients and their i particularly look forward to discussing ways to more support to the 62 million Family Caregivers who in 2009 provided an estimated 450 billion in uncompensated Long Term Care, more than double the value of all paid longterm care. Majorerm care is the Catastrophic Health care expense faced by americans today in these will only increase as our nation ages. Its not just that there will be a greater number of americans, it is also that Older Americans are living longer. Are ours 85 and older socalled oldest old. They are the fastestgrowing segment of our population. This is the very populat
The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2013, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour ebate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip , but in o five minutes no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from california, mr. Mccolin ton, for five minutes. Mcclintock, for five minutes. Mr. Mcclintock mr. Speaker, were now seven weeks into the implementation of obamacare. We know that in the first four weeks 106,000 americans placed health plans in their shopping baskets although its not clear how many of them actually purchased plans. Meanwhile, its now estimated that some 5 1 2 million americans have lost the Health Insurance that they had, that they liked and that they were promised that they could keep. The In
One thing, though, is clear. Things look quite a bit different than they did just a short month ago. So usually it is the republicans who are united and the democrats that are divided. But this time democrats are solidly behind president obama. I have never seen the democrats as united in my life. Democrats are united and ready to help in this shutdown. Democrats are united. You have to say the by any objective standpoint, democrats are united. Democrats are united. There is no democrat ready to break ranks. Democrats in the house are united. Again, democrats are united. And democrats now, politically have the luxury of both unity and clarity of vision. Up until now, Congressional Democrats have held firm on obama care. For years, they held together through tea party back lash and congressional elections. And particularly through the republican shutdown, the democrats stood united. My flock has been lock strong together. After several weeks of implementation problems, democrats are sta