"The lack of a basic safety net on long-term care is just more fuel to the fire on the kind of problems we are going to face."
"if we do not design a program, we are still going to pay for it. We are just going to pay for it in some really terrible ways"
"the null hypothesis, if we do nothing, is incredibly expensive"
"The current system forces seniors to spend most of their assets in order to qualify."
"Is this a sustainable path, that is, counting on Medicaid to be the safety net."
"It just seems like, to me, this is another example of how middle-class families are getting squeezed."
"We have got to give the information to our students and to the Federal Government so that we are not pouring more resources into a place that is not providing a top quality education."
"It is essential to ensure that our taxpayer dollars are going to schools that are good stewards of this investment."
"Should there be a bright-line beyond which we say a school should not be accredited?"
"We should not be loading our students down with debt that they are going to be obligated to deal with for a lifetime when they did not get an education in return for that."
"If accreditors are doing the main thing we need them to do, which is to crackdown on poor performing schools, that there is a problem here."