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Americans 85 and older, our oldest old, are the Fastest Growing segment of our population. And this is the very population that is most at risk of the multiple and interacting Health Problems that can lead to disability and a need for longterm care. At the same time, declining birthrates mean that there will be fewer Family Members and paid caregivers to care for our nations growing aging population. Today, there are approximately seven potential caregivers for each person over 80, as this chart...

If thats enough. Yes but go ahead. Its a good point. I think its critical to understand. People think we have medicaid. Ill be okay. If theres a problem throughout. And maybe another way to say it is to ask is this a sustainable path that is counting on medicaid to be the safety net whey see people doing in the marketplace right now which is essentially using their savings to purchase something that will keep them from being on the Medicaid Program eventually. In other words its not in theory yo...

Help me understand, because my perspective on our entitlement today is we cant afford the ones we have. The construct we work with is forget the multiple debt. The real challenge we have with our Pension Plans are underfunded, our health care weve are already exposed to come so were talking about a couple hundred trillion dollars of unfunded liability. I just dont know how thats a great question and im glad you asked because i will tell you, again because my professional background, the last thi...

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 Medi...

Ago, whatever plan he had then is over with. This is a new election. The deal that he had a year ago, that does not count. For republicans and people to say they dont understand whats going on, i have a problem with that. The republicans deny anything he puts forward. The president left his vacation and came here. Theyre not being fair. Republicans say they are christians. Theyre not. They did this during his last term and now are causing and all of us to suffer because they dont like the presid...

Most heavily populated states, means you are seeing newcomers are not welcome, existing renters can not buy houses, our children cannot buy houses. That is not the american dream, to stand in the way of our future. Host the book is entitled american nightmare how government undermines the dream of homeownership. This is from drake cinders what land use restrictions would you approve of . Guest a buy support local homeowners imposing their own i would support local homeowners imposing their own r...

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 Caregiv...

Household also depreciates of the steady state of the Housing Production to 1. 6 million homes in here. How we will get from 900,000 to 1. 6 million in the next year, think we will over the next year but if you look at the fundamentals of the Housing Market in the demography that ultimately drives the plus the fact that housing is relatively affordable if you look at the affordability indexes and take into account housing i think thats an area where theres a lot of potential and upside still. [i...

The speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Pray. N conroy let us eternal god, through whom we see what we could be and what we can become, thank you for giving us another day. In these days, our nation is faced with pressing issues, constitutional, religious, and personal rights, and matters of great political importance. We thank you that so Many Americans have been challenged and risen to the exercise of their responsibilities as citizens...

Will one dry. It raises the iconic question, are you better off than you were four years ago . The rising answer for our nation is an unequivocal no. Jobs have been lost, hours have been cut, employers have been forced to drop coverage their employees were happy with, premiums have skyrocketed, millions have lost coverage they were happy with. Obamacare has hurt medicare recipients by cutting about 156 billion out of Medicare Advantage. And this cut was a grave miscalculation. Medicare advantage...