Let's do the CLASS Act. I would ask the Department go back to the drawing board, be optimistic, and come up with a plan that implements the CLASS Act.

Now, instead of allowing this population an opportunity to remain self-sufficient, we are sentencing them to unnecessary poverty to receive the care that they need.

Unfortunately, Secretary Sebelius has announced that HHS will not move forward with implementing CLASS. But I am here to tell you that if we do not move forward with the implementation of the CLASS Act, we will be turning our backs on the…

First of all, I would like to see whether or not we are even going to have a meeting.

I really would urge this administration to move forward with naming the members of this panel and using this panel as a way to move forward.

This represented the first real attempt at the national level to tackle the country's long-term care puzzle.

It just seems to me that precluding this council which exists under the law is wrong...

On March 23, 2010, our government made a promise to the American people to improve health care in this country by enacting the Affordable Care Act, landmark legislation that expanded and strengthened health coverage in this country.

They have no idea how to deal with this problem, only to tear down the attempts to make the problem more manageable.

I am going to borrow Patrick Kennedy's language of a demographic tsunami because here comes the baby boom generation.

I am concerned that it has been turned into a political football because some of my Republican colleagues on the committee released a report last month that made some very alarming allegations.

I just disagree with I guess HHS counsel or whoever is advising you both with regard to the CLASS independence advisory council...