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
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Phil flynn has his eye on oil and gold at cme. Hillary vaughn is live in dallas today at a google roundtable event. Gerri to you first on the rollercoaster session. Reporter wow, wow. You said it at one point during the day we dropped 336 point on the dow the within that hour we turned green. Maybe expectation after rate cut, maybe two by the end of the year. Traders like that idea even though the Services Sector appeared anemic here. Dow, one week. We were down 840 points combined tuesday an wednesday. Now we are in the green today. But on the week, the dow is down more than 2 . S p down more than 2 . Nasdaq down 1 . We have got a ways to go to see our way through this thicket. Dow laggards this week, 3m, one of the industrials stocks getting killed bit manufacturing report earlier in the week. Price target cut by barclays and credit suisse. Bad news for 3m. Theyre down 5. 63 . Caterpillar same story. Industrial stock getting hammered by this bat news on manufacturing. Goldman sachs,
Mastro, an assistant professor of Security Studies at the edmund a. Wilson school at Georgetown University and american scholar at American Enterprise institute. Shes the author of the cost of conversation, obstacles to peace talks in wartime. And she is currently working on a book about chans challenges to u. S. Primacy. Next we hear from a senior fellow at Hudson Institute and adjunct senior fellow at the center for new American Security and president and ceo of solarium llc, a defense consulting firm. Hes previously served as president of the center for strategic and budgetary assessments in a department of Defenses Office of net assessment and on the personal staff of three secretaries of defense. Hes the author of several books, most recently publishing the declines of deterrents earlier this year. Our third panelist is dr. Michael green who is a Senior Vice President for asia and japan chair at the center for strategic and International Studies csis as well as director of Asian S