Thank you for what you're doing in Medicare.
I think the more that we can really get the information out there to children, that's the future.
We need to move in that direction.
I can publicly say that this is, I believe, the first Secretary that has really focused on changing this paradigm.
We've got to get more physical education back into schools.
And what a terrible signal to send to kids.
We agree on so many issues that cut across party lines, when it comes to medical research.
Man, the elderly can prevent a lot of illnesses and stuff.
We need to make a new approach, a comprehensive approach towards wellness.
Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.
Medicare pays for all this patching, fixing, and mending, but we don't get to this step, of preventative healthcare.
But we've got to somehow provide the leadership and the bully pulpit and the incentives--whatever we can provide, incent...
But, Dean, we've got to start with kids early on.
But we don't provide it for businesses to provide wellness programs for the workers.
In Sioux City--last weekend I was there--they've laid off five P.E. teachers because of cut on school funding.
Because it is my opinion, having been, you know, in Agriculture--I've been chairman and ranking member of that committee...
So we have to have better information on moderation in eating those kinds of foods, and make sure that these are not the...
Senator Harkin, you've helped us with that in the past, and greatly expanded our teen programming at 21 cities across th...
