Is that written in the rules, though, that two-week timeframe?

I think there is a common thing in marketing that you have to get a message out seven times before people start remembering it.

That all requires preauthorization, so there could be delays with regard to that?

Thank you for inviting AARP to participate in today's hearing.

I do think that we need to have more official information coming from CMS.

We need to reevaluate the rules on this program... that is a really bad place for our consumers to be.

They can't do that because they may have a preexisting condition, and that may be the thing that prevents them?

That would have to be done at the Federal level, and CMS would have that.

I know that there are even people you can hire to help you, right.

Thank you for inviting AARP to participate in today's hearing.

That all requires preauthorization, so there could be delays with regard to that?

We appreciate Senator Ricketts co-sponsoring this important legislation.

Is that with traditional Medicare? Is that less of a problem?

You can't go back to the Medicare supplement plans.

I would like to thank Senator Ricketts for leading the Improving Measurements of Loneliness and Isolation Act and for co-sponsoring the Alleviating Barriers for Caregivers Act.

I don't think it was the goal that we were going to have 50 percent of people on these plans.

A thousand dollars a day.

What mechanisms are in place to hold the Medicare Advantage plans accountable for the Two-Midnight Rule?