Susan Collins

It seems to me that it may well be harder for seniors to get the financing that they need.

We created a program for the National Institutes of Health called Cyber Health, which trains seniors how to use the technology

I do not know of any State as early on and continuing to support entrepreneurial activity

And obviously that puts us at greater risk of an attack.

This is not an exaggeration; this is a fact.

It has caused grave damage to our national security. And you would agree that it puts at risk potentially the lives of our troops.

There has been very little focus on the damage that Edwin (sic) Snowden has done to our military.

I am pleased to appear before you today to introduce Dr. Joseph Westphal, who has been nominated to serve as the U.S. Ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Not through any malice but just not understanding that this is supposed to be exempt.

We need to make sure that everyone in the Social Security Administration and all the other government programs where this is applicable are aware of, and apply properly and expansively, this principle.

I think it is even more likely that the Social Security personnel in states with very few survivors would not understand that those payments are not to be counted toward eligibility for programs like SSI.

Do you think that the Claims Conference should expand its work in negotiating payments from the German government to include other countries as well?

I think that reflects an institutional bias in programs that we have at the Federal level.

I was shocked when you gave the statistic of more than 9,000 on the waiting list for services.

Surely, their unique needs deserve special consideration.

As Senator Collins mentioned, the inflexible routines, uniformed strangers, sudden loud noises, darkness and the loss of autonomy are experienced by survivors as intense post-traumatic stress disorder.

Thank you again, Senator Nelson. Thank you again, and Ranking Member Collins, for your efforts. We are depending on you.

Let me emphasize that I have always been a strong proponent of home health care.

Let me begin by thanking you for calling this hearing to focus on the unique health and social service needs of Holocaust survivors living in our country.

I hope my father's story helps illustrate the plight of the remaining 55,000 or so survivors in the U.S. living at or below poverty.

This simply has to change.

About a decade ago, I authored legislation that became law to allow the Federal Government to provide a long-term care insurance program for Federal employees.

I continue to believe, though, that another issue is that people are under the misimpression that, somehow, the Medicare program is going to cover them.

I thank you very much for holding this very interesting hearing.

Patients are more and more asked to participate in the decision-making, and this is a tool that can help them do this.