Today, I’m thrilled to be speaking at the Elevate Women’s Summit about family caregiving in this country, and how we can keep working together to find solutions to better support #FamilyCaregivers.
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Right now, 40 million family caregivers shoulder the burden of long-term care in America. The cost of uncompensated care performed by family caregivers was more than total federal Medicaid spending in 2013. And as our population ages, those numbers will keep rising.
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This issue is personal to me. I was raised by my grandparents, and when my grandmother got older, I was her primary caregiver. That’s why I co-authored the RAISE Family Caregivers Act with
@SenatorCollins to help#FamilyCaregivers better meet the challenges they face.pic.twitter.com/Z8AalTUMca
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This year, Congress passed and the President signed our bipartisan RAISE Family Caregivers Act which acknowledges the work of caregivers and gives them the support they need to care for loved ones.https://www.aarp.org/politics-society/advocacy/info-2018/senate-family-caregivers-act.html …
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We have more work to do, but I will keep working to support family caregivers because I believe we have a shared responsibility to ensure that everyone has access to quality, affordable health care, and the ability to live and age with support and dignity.
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Medicare for all would cost $10 trillion more than our national debt already is, if you vote for it it's a death wish for the American economy.
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