The rest of us need to plan for how we will pay for long term care since most of us will need it.
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This is more evidence that we need to prepare for long term care costs.
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While I am thrilled the budget assumes the passage of major health care reform this year, we still need to actually pass a health care reform bill for it to happen.
We need to provide affordable, quality mental health care for families.
We know that we are spending enough--we could go out and hire one doctor for every seven families in the U.S. with the money we are spending--but we need to get more value for the health care dollar.
There is no doubt the U.S. has a long-run budget problem, and that we need to do a better job caring for the frail elderly who are chronically ill and need both medical care and long-term services.
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The coming need for geriatric mental health care "is quite profound for us as a nation, and something we need to attend to urgently, " he said.
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What more compelling evidence of the problem do we need than to note that General Motors now spends more for health care of its employees and retirees than for the material required to manufacture its products - steel.
We need to think carefully about an appropriate interface for a patient in intensive care - a touch screen might be helpful.
We need to create more jobs in America, address the need for home care, and improve the quality of care jobs all at the same time.
And to help ensure Americans living with Alzheimer's can access the care they need, we have worked to strengthen Medicare and expand choices for health insurance.
But surely, in the wealthiest country in the history of the world, we can afford to pool our resources to care for those who truly need our help.
For example, we need to lower the cost of health care in programs like Medicare that are the biggest drivers of our deficit, without just passing the burden off to seniors.
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But we also need to attack the underlying drivers of health care spending, which means not paying for care of little or no value.
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"We're trying to run emergency services for those people who really need accident or emergency care, " she said.
What we need is to focus on the real crises of health care and Medicare and on expanding opportunities for poor, working and middle- class families who are struggling now.
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We do have a say in the treatment we need to be well, whether that involves new ways to pay for services like health care savings accounts (which, according to Hwang, are a smart way to reduce the cost of traditional insurance) or endorsing movements to empower consumers like the Quantified Self.
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We need to enable public hospitals, and community and university health centers, to provide basic, affordable care for working families without insurance.
Having spent six years in the Senate, I know that fixing health care will require political will to get the votes we need, and it will take a movement for change, a solid national consensus for reform that can withstand the impact of the special interests.
And if we walk away now, if we simply retreat into our respective corners, we will never be able to come together and solve challenges like health care or education or the need to find good jobs for every American.
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