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Elizabeth Ann Warren is an American attorney, academic, and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Massachusetts since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, she has been a prominent advocate for consumer protection, economic equality, and corporate regulation. Warren gained national recognition for her work in establishing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and has focused on issues such as student debt relief and healthcare reform during her tenure in the Senate.
I really appreciate your making that point, Mr. Buffenbarger, because you are exactly right, that when we make the investments in infrastructure, we not only create good jobs right now; we create the right conditions for businesses to be…
The first thing to the safety of community banks and support is reinstate Glass-Steagall.
I worry about our community banks because we all know the number of community banks out there is shrinking.
A lack of access to capital was one of main obstacles to manufacturers' ability to remain profitable.
Every dollar spent in manufacturing generates about $1.48 in economic productivity in other sectors of the economy.
We can do more. We can do so much more, but we are all going to have to pull together on this.
That if we do even a modest inflation adjustment, that we are down somewhere between 20 and 25 percent in terms of spending since 2000.
Well, I think that is a powerful answer that you give--a reminder that even the dollars we talk about that we currently spend in the health care system on cancer do not come close to identifying all of the costs, all of the out-of-pocket…
That is almost three times bigger than last year's sequester cuts, and it is 25 times bigger than the entire annual budget of the National Cancer Institute.
I would like to pick up where Senator Collins was on the question about investments and investments at NIH.
Mr. Kennett said research saves lives. Ms. Harper said research dollars equal lives.
I am hoping to have many opportunities today to ask about, particularly about, our federal investments in research.
We have all been touched by cancer, and so for you to come forward and give us hope is very important.
With a $66 billion profit generated in the 5 years up to 2012 there seems to be room in the Federal student loan program for revisions that would create economic incentives to distribute the primary care workforce to areas of greatest need…
At a time when our Nation needs an additional 52,000 primary care physicians to satisfy the demands of 2025, it makes no sense to have a Federal loan program that increased the cost of student loans by $66 billion from 2007 to 2012!
It is now up to Congress to put the resources into it so that these programs can be fully implemented.
It's important to continue to support traditional residencies, but it's also critical that we support new efficient programs like these.
So it seems obvious that part of our long-term strategy to improve outcomes at lower costs in our healthcare system would be to increase the number of doctors trained in primary care.
I think we all agree that access to primary care is essential for keeping people healthy.
You have my wholehearted support, and if you are confirmed to this position, I hope that we will be able to work together to help advance HUD's very important mission.
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