Mike Braun

Our own Federal Government is doing that now to the tune of almost $0.30 on every $1.00 we spend.

That would be the best prevention, is to make sure you filter that all out in the first place.

My simple observation would be, since there is variability among miners and Mr. Roberts said it is inherently kind of dangerous in some places, is that early detection would seem to be the only way that you can kind of in a fairly simple…

With today's hearing, we are looking at a profession that is tremendously beneficial to our society, but one that is not without risks and hazards for those who work in and around it.

Currently, and by the way, health and wellness and prevention and all that is what I wove into my health care plan, back many years ago, in my company.

With waiting lists and challenges in food delivery is it justified to expand the definition of greatest social need?

Yeah, an ombudsman service is a portal of feedback, and I think any business, any entity ought to welcome it.

I applaud this local entrepreneurship.

I am committed to preserving flexibility for localities and states, because they generally do things with more effectiveness.

Our national debt, as I said earlier in my opening statement, is ballooning to the tune of a trillion dollars every six months.

Every community is different, like I said. The Biden Administration, though, has put rules out there that want to try to make everyone adhere to the same guidelines.

Under the current Administration, we have seen sky-high inflation, and probably 20 percent higher now than it was when the Administration came in.

The lack of broadband access in rural communities... is a state that is putting a high priority on it.

I would like to bring much needed transparency by requiring the Administration to summarize state ombudsman long-term care annual reports for Congress.

Thank you. Ms. Painter, the Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program exists to identify, investigate, and resolve complaints made at long-term care facilities.

We should allow states and local service providers to innovate to meet growing nutrition needs.

The spending of borrowed money, almost anything we do new here, is 100 percent borrowed.

Our own Federal Government is doing that now to the tune of almost $0.30 on every $1.00 we spend.

I would just point out there has quite frankly not been a great deal of effort put into that until the silica rule was promulgated.

That was how much they had to borrow to even cover all of the expenses, including the benefit payments and administrative costs.

That is when you had the shortfall. And has it been every year since then?

That would be the best prevention, is to make sure you filter that all out in the first place.

My simple observation would be, since there is variability among miners and Mr. Roberts said it is inherently kind of dangerous in some places, is that early detection would seem to be the only way that you can kind of in a fairly simple…

With today's hearing, we are looking at a profession that is tremendously beneficial to our society, but one that is not without risks and hazards for those who work in and around it.

When we started producing food that had a lot of vitamins and kind of empty calories, that's when the healthcare industry really started to shoot up