Older Americans Act
The Senate Subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging held a hearing today on how Older Americans Act programs like Meals on Wheels reduce hunger and poverty among seniors and save money on more expensive nursing home and hospital care. “These programs not only work to ease isolation, hunger and suffering, they also save taxpayers substantial sums of money,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders, the subcommittee chairman. “The simple truth is that we can feed a senior for an entire year for the cost of one day in a hospital.”
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