What Claude Pepper suggested on a number of occasions is starting a model so that people on a voluntary basis could start putting aside money for private, long-term care coverage.
Could I ask one other question, Mr. Chairman? How would you three propose paying for it?
I want you three and the advocates who have come here today to know that we're going to have some advocates at the White House tomorrow pros...
the first bipartisan universal coverage bill we've had in the history of the Senate, we take two baby steps.
You won't get much disagreement on that.
I think it is fair to say that I wouldn't have any Republican sponsors on the Healthy Americans Act if I had tilted this effort to the publi...
There is a group of people who don't complain at all about their health coverage in this country and that's Members of Congress.
the model that is included or embodied in the CLASS Act that Senator Kennedy has introduced.
What has been so troubling about the discussions in the past is you see volumes and volumes written on everything except long-term care.
You can't turn it all over to the government. You can't just have a government-run operation.
Both political parties have been right. Democrats have been right about the idea that you cannot fix this system unless you expand coverage.