Family had to resort to asking their neighbors to pay for their sons medical bill. Story after story after story about medical insurance denials convinced me that the Affordable Care act will make a difference in reforming Health Care Coverage practices by the Insurance Companies as well as enabling families to avoid the financial travails of bankruptcy. Let me say finally, connecticut has been a leader in Insurance Markets with many leader insurers headquartered in my home state. I am proud that connecticut has been that leader, that its home to many Insurance Companies, and that Access Health connecticut, the individual marketplace in connecticut has been working tirelessly and successfully with these Insurance Firms to put together a groundbreaking exchange. The Kaiser Foundation recently found that the likely cost for a family of four in hartford, connecticut, earning 60,000 a year would be 122 a month. Thats a cost of about a Starbucks Coffee every day. The products being offered
Sure. Thank you. I would only say in the view of many economists, the issue about how to correctly measure inflation is a completely different discussion. And the issue of whether we can fix poverty in old age. And in my view, personally, if the chained chiropractic pi is a better way to measure the cost of living for senior, we should do it. We need to focus on the issue of inadequate ability in control over resources. We did provow the not going there we proposed a change in the indexization of benefits prior to retirement nap generated enough money to raise survivor benefit which are important. And raise minimum benefits to 120 of the poverty line. So lets just stop there. I want to bring it to your attention. Senator. If i can. I want to go back to the point senator machin raised. When he talk about the decision between using a chained cpi for some people err not others you are acknowledging as its been laid out, were talking about over time a cut in benefits. I think that senator
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