Chris Grayling Quotes

The Medicaid system currently steers people toward nursing home care. Far more people can be covered in community-based care programs for significantly less.

I’ve got my own Medicare plan. I’ve got an intern for a son-in-law.

Americans count on the guaranteed benefits they paid for under Medicare.

The fact remains that most of us are anesthetized to the true cost and true value of long term care insurance.

We know we are entering a period of transformation in aged care.

When Medicare was created for senior citizens and America 's disabled in 1965, about half of a senior's health care spending was on doctors and the other half on hospitals.

Family caregiving has become a predictable crisis. Americans are living longer and longer but dying slower and slower.

One of the big things coming out of healthcare reform is a thing called the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Act (CLASS) which is a mechanism to reimburse people staying at home for technology and services that allow them to stay at home.

Let me be clear - I want all Louisiana citizens to have choice - including the elderly and persons with disabilities - and their families - who rely on the state for their care.

Most Americans have some experience with nursing homes or other long term care settings, and nearly half have had a family member or close friend in a home in the past three years.

Traditionally, Medicare's assurance has been that for the elderly and persons with disabilities that they will not be alone when confronted with the full burden of their health care costs.

We all understand that we are living longer, and we are more likely to spend more years as frail, elderly people who can't work. We also recognize that the wonderful advances in medicine also come with wonderful price tags. Those are things you can't budget around.

Nearly every American will encounter the need for long-term care.

If I really lose the rest of my memory, don't let my kids spend a lot of money to put me in an expensive care facility. If they treat me very well there, I will not remember it, and if they treat me badly I will not remember that either. So it really won't matter, will it?

With the right care at the right time, a huge number of people could stay independent much longer, with a higher quality of life.

We must find a way to cover those who are no longer healthy but need care.

Social care from cradle to grave is a huge concern for us all.

As a physician, I treated hundreds of patients who needed long-term care, including ones with Alzheimer's.

In an aging world with more chronic disease, health and healthcare are enormous opportunities that we want to focus on.

As more people live longer, we can expect there to be additional costs for society.

Without federal assistance, most elderly Americans would be unable to afford long-term care - and most nursing homes would be unable to keep the doors open.

As we face tough decisions in Washington, we must never forget our responsibility to protect Medicare and preserve it for future generations.

A society that does not value its older people denies its roots and endangers its future. Let us strive to enhance their capacity to support themselves for as long as possible and, when they cannot do so anymore, to care for them.

No well-planned retirement should be without long term care insurance. It is the very cornerstone of retirement security.

In my very first term there was an issue that brought us [George Mitchell, Ted Kennedy, Chris Dodd] together in a very deep, emotional, and personal level.It was called 'spousal impoverishment' and it meant that for one person [to go into] a nursing home, the family [ ], could go near bankruptcy, and then they'd end up with a lien on the family farm or the home. And so I wanted to change that.