These are countries that are highly automated but at the same time they spend money on elderly care and the health system.

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This is the bill to sort out the system for care for elderly and disabled people - under the chairmanship of the Lib Dem former health minister, Paul Burstow.

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Obama wants to make direct reductions in how much money Medicare spends, while Romney wants to turn Medicare into a voucher system where our elderly shop for care through private insurance.

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Mr. HAL DAUB (American Health Care Association): We still wouldn't have enough people because the number of elderly, disabled and poor coming at the care delivery system alone is just overwhelming.

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The only committee hearing is of the special committee doing scrutiny of the Draft Care and Support Bill (at 9.45am) - the bill to create a rational system for social care for the elderly and disabled.

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With a growing number of elderly relying on a shrinking workforce, the existing system of care inside the family appears untenable.

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The most daring strategy would be for Mr Bush to lay out an ambitious policy for the second term centred on a fundamental reform of America's entitlement programmes (principally Social Security and Medicare, the federally funded systems that provide, respectively, pensions and health care for the elderly) or basic changes to the tax system.

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Spending on the elderly and the disabled will be growing at one rate while the rest of the health care system will be growing at twice that rate.

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