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Speaker 1: the Association of Mature American Citizens Andy MANNGIONI, thanks for

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Speaker 2: My pleasure.

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Speaker 1: Larry. Listen, you heard this set up there, and I

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Speaker 2: Well, Larry AMAC Action has been sounding the alarm and

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Speaker 2: They put this issue in our issues portfolio. Larry, I

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Speaker 2: For long, for many years, part of the reason AMAC

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Speaker 2: Well. Actually, absolutely, I've been working with independent women and

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Speaker 2: in home elder care. Oh and to make it accessible.

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Speaker 1: Yes, Oh, tell me more about that. That's see. I

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Speaker 2: We've been involved in. Parent I'm sorry, Larry, we've been

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Speaker 2: involved in parental rights, make no mistake, all right. But

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Speaker 2: what we've done we're in a collaborative effort right now.

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Speaker 2: And let me just paint a picture for you if

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Speaker 2: I could. In home elder care costs have risen three

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Speaker 2: year twenty thirty, there's going to be over seventy three

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Speaker 2: Yet we're still dealing with federal rules that have made

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Speaker 2: we've done, We've joined with independent Women to raise awareness

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Speaker 2: about this caregive Me crisis, and we launched a collaborative

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Speaker 2: project called Aging at Home and Living with Dignity. The

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Speaker 2: whole purpose here for the Strategic Partnership is to elevate

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Speaker 2: real life senior caregiving experiences, build freedom for seniors, and

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Speaker 2: advance policy reforms that expand freedom and choice to make

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Speaker 2: to make aging in place more in reach for every family.

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Speaker 2: And we're thrilled to be working them on this issue.

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Speaker 1: All right, Andy MANNGIONI my exit question for you here.

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Speaker 1: Let's bring it back to the Save Act. What's going

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Speaker 1: to happen? What's the endgame here? You're right there, you're

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Speaker 1: in the trenches. You're fighting the fight. You're in DC

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Speaker 1: on some more doors as senators saying get this done?

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Speaker 1: Is it going to get done?

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Speaker 2: That's a very very good question. Okay, it all depends.

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Speaker 2: It's in the hands of a centain majority of leadership.

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Speaker 2: Let me tell you what we're doing. Everything we can

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Speaker 2: we're asking for leadership in the Senate to bring this

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Speaker 2: to a vote. This is wildly populator, I'm sorry popular.

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Speaker 2: We are minding us the US Senate how popular this is.

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Speaker 2: We are using words like will of the people. This

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Speaker 2: is what the people want. There is no political fallout

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Speaker 2: from passing legislation like this in terms of what you know,

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Speaker 2: accountability with the general public. Because the general public wants

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Speaker 2: that we are reinforcing that message. We are asking our

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Speaker 2: as well. And that's a pretty powerful thing.

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Speaker 1: AMAC Association and Mature American Citizens AMACH. It couldn't be easier.

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Speaker 1: A MAC and the good luck as you make the

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