To order. Today the finance committee focuses its attention on what in my view is the biggest challenge ahead for medicare and the future of Americas Health care system. That is managing chronic illness. To understand why this is a growing issue, one need only to look at how medicare has changed over the years. When the Medicare Program began, in those early days i was codirector of the cancer, full head of hair and rugged good looks. Medicare was mostly about caring for seniors who needed to go to the hospital. If a senior slipped on the Kitchen Floor and broke an ankle for example and head to the hospital, they would get treatment and they would head home. In 1970, nearly 70 of medicare spending was for hospital care. Now that number is close to 40 . The change shows how medicare is very different than it was for four decades ago. Other than broken ankles or new money medical care is dominated by chronic conditions such as cancer, diabetes and Heart Disease. More than two thirds of t
Sure the interconnection is fair hearing what start with you, ms. Dempsey in you, mrs. Lehmann to get nonrecord how valuable it would be. We know the debate of who would to be, but one single individual be that go to person to coordinate the array of benefits and services and the like. Lets start with you, miss tennessee. Would be lifechanging. It would be absolutely wonderful to be able to i guess free up some of my time and maybe even relax enough to know that i dont have to follow a step behind out there want to make sure things are done and make sure my care is at the top of the list. If i had one person that is the go to person that would make sure that everything was done correctly and everything was scored dated between everyone else, it is just invaluable. In you, mrs. Lehmann. Not only would it be lifechanging, it would be lifegiving. Because most of my time is spent feeling overwhelmed. Do i call for this . Where do i call for that quiet now looking at longterm care. How are
If i do Something Like town, where i grew up. My community, people kind of know. Without anonymity, we had to behave better than we do with. Do you feel we need to preserve anonymity before we go about our liveles . In your small town, your parents, others, you, absolutely. But what didnt happen was that information wasnt tracked in perpetuity, forever. The ability to track information, your whereabouts, your mobility tracing is big. The ability of tracking this is not used the way it was intended. The reason we need privacy is its such a basic concept. Privacy is like breathing. You take it for granted until you need air and youre deprived of it. If you look at states that morphed from free and democratic societies to totalitarian states, the first thread to arrival is privacy. The academics study this, point it out again and again that without privacy, you dont have freedom. Why. The state has dont go to the extreme opposite. Why do people morph into it. The presumption there is that
Collecting that information and only permitted to use that information for a very narrow purpose. Theyre not intended to use it for secondary purposes unrelated to that primary purpose of collection. Its very narrow. So privacy is about freedom and your ability to largely go about your activities as you wish subject to limited exceptions and subject, of course, to law enforcement. I agree with you. Asking these questions. Let me ask you, the limited purposes, do you feel youre using that information for purposes for which is not intended today, right now, say in the janes department . I dont know it personally. How about security in general. Homeland security, i worked with them. Theres no issue. But i am going to point to the obvious which is to the nsa revelations that have come out. Not just nsa, my country in canada, the csc, that kind of thing. That has revealed the massive scale of information about lawabiding citizens that are being collected. Let me point you and if you want th
Yes, they are as prochoice and so on, but in terms of what the government should be doing and things they are concerned about economically, they still feel more comfortable in the Republican Party and that is what they choose to focus on. I want to ask you one very fundamental question, which is, is there a really any benefit to finding more Common Ground . We have been talking as though there is. And on some level, there seems to be an idea that needs no defense, but would it make it a difference politically to find more Common Ground . I think there are some places where it would. The one area that i think women should Work Together and cross ideological lines is in media sexism. There is no reason there needs to be a divide among women ideologically about how media, particularly Media Coverage of women running for office or in office, there is no reason there needs to be an ideological divide in terms of assessing or evaluating that. There is a group that has formed recently called