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a few of the numbers beyond the topline numbers. we want to talk about job prospects in your part of the country. underemployed, if you are unemployed and if you stopped looking. prospects,t and job a subject that came up in the president's weekly address and the republican weekly address. we will start with bradley byrne of alabama. he was traveling around his district for the last couple of , talking about how government could help local efforts when it comes to unemployment and poverty. he was in theodore, ala woulu gave weekl publ addres we [vidp]om/

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underemployed. if you're unemployed but still looking, 202-748-8001. if you have stopped looking, 202-748-8002. a lot of federal officials focusing on jobs and the economy. we want to hear your story. we start with eddie in lawrenceville, georgia. eddie has stopped looking for a job. good morning. why did you stop looking? caller: i found i could do a lot stock by just buying some and just using the stock market because, for one thing, there's too many illegals in the country. saying 11 million, but they've been saying that for 15 years, 20 years now. i think it's more like 40 million. whatever, if everybody wants to just let south america takeover -- if hillary is elected, the

minute they hear hillary is elected, they will be coming by the millions up here. did your job search get impacted by illegal immigration to this country? what kind of jobs were you in? caller: the restaurant business. host: how was it impacted by illegal immigration? caller: almost everything is affected by it. talk to the economists, they will tell you. host: that's eddie in lawrenceville, georgia. charles is up next in goshen, tennessee. on the line for those that consider themselves underemployed. what you consider yourself underemployed? i'm a substitute schoolteacher and i know where the 40 million people that are unemployed are. they are retired and spending money. largest the third source of gdp in the world after

the u.s. and china. they don't want to work because they are retired and they are spending their own money. you are talking about the labor force participation rate. if you could do more work, would you want to be a full-time teacher? caller: 88% of the prime age people, male primates people from 25-35 are currently le prime agemai people from 25-35 are currently employed. i am 70 years old. i choose to be a substitute schoolteacher. i live in a retirement community and i am retired and happy.

and i do not want to be employed full-time because i am part of the 40 million who were spending money, not looking to make money. do you think you would want to be a substitute teacher for? caller: i do substitute schoolteaching when they need me. it's not a requirement. , if yound of a hobby want to put it that way. host: we have a line for those who consider themselves underemployed. we want to hear why you consider yourself underemployed, what you would like to do and what your job prospects are. tim is on that line as well in washington. good morning. caller: good morning. i would prefer to be retired, but it's not financially feasible at this time.

i just wanted to bring up that for me, my primary problem here -- i know this is the case for many people in this country. andthing of stagflation that term with being stagnant wages combined with inflation. that is getting to me. the incremental changes that come about such as property taxes, for instance, really, really add up. there is no end in sight for that. host: can you talk about your wages for the last couple of years? do you mind talking about it? caller: i began my employment march 21 of 2012 and i have not had a raise since i began

employment. if you start doing the math on that come is a problem. -- on that, it is a problem. host: would you need more training or is it a matter of jobs not being out there for you? caller: it's a combination. at 63 years old, i would like to look for another job. i don't like to use it as an excuse, but it's very difficult job market, the competitive aspect of it. i have been doing some looking, but there's not a whole lot out there. i'm just going to try to hang in there as best i can. when you say the competitive nature, is in job training, skills that people have these days that you are

competing against, that the younger workers are competing against? caller: both. i had the opportunity for some training. not as much as i would like. it's the younger, better trained people. it's understandable from an employer's viewpoint. host: you bring up stagnant wages. here's some more numbers from that august jobs report. earnings rose by three cents. we have lines for those who consider themselves

underemployed, a line for those who are unemployed and looking and the line for those who have stopped looking. we are simply asking, how is the job search going in your part of the country in light of this new job support? david is on that line for those who consider themselves underemployed. also from washington. good morning. go ahead. is hard to find part-time work if you are retired. if you can't find a job here in seattle, you don't want to work. most job start at $11 an hour. if you have technical training, you will make more, of course. the problem here is finding a place to live. the housing prices are up the hype. up pretty high.

there's jobs every place. when you are talking about part-time work you are doing, what sort of industry are their jobs are you to do that in -- for you to do that in? is it something that requires more technical training? caller: my computer skills are down. i need some training on the computer skills. i need to get my computer skills up. need extra technical training. host: have you ever look into any federal or state program ort helps with that training is that something you would have to pay for out-of-pocket? caller: i'm sort of fortunate that i have a good retirement -- i'm not desperate or anything, but i do need more technical training.

there is definitely work in this area. it's all over here, everywhere. coming up that august jobs report that showed the unemployment rate holding steady at 4.9%. the donald trump campaign sent out a statement on friday. the august jobs report shows the troubling long-term trend the clinton-obama economy failed to .roduce better paying jobs as we said, federal officials focusing on labor day and jobs in their weekly messages. here is the president's weekly

message. [video clip] we arent obama: i know in the heat of a more raucous political season than usual, but we cannot get so distracted by the latest bluster that we lose sight of the policies that will actually help working families get ahead. what has caused the frustration roiling in our politics right now. feelany working folk still left behind by an economy that is costly changing. we have to make some c choices. do we want a future where inequality rises as union membership keeps falling or one where wages are rising for everybody and workers have a say in their prospects? are we a people who just talk about family values while remaining the only developed nation that does not offer its workers paid maternity leave? or are we a people that actually value families and make paid

leave a priority for working parents? if we are going to restore the sense that hard work is rewarded with a fair shot to get ahead, we are going to have to follow the lead of all those who came before us. just fornding up not ourselves, but for the father clocking into the plant, the sales clerk working long and unpredictable hours or a mother riding the bus to work across town even on labor day. it means exercising our rights to join a union and above all to vote. underemployed, 202-748-8000. if you are unemployed and looking, 202-748-8001. if you have stopped looking for a job, 202-748-8002. peter is on that line for those who have stopped looking.

he is in portland, oregon. tell us your story. i was electronics salesman for many years. management in the sales of electronics and suddenly, all the commission sales dried up and you cannot make any money from electronics anymore. circuit city bailing out, losing 30,000 people. you start looking for other good commission sales jobs and they just kind of all dried up. host: did you go to college to get a degree for the job that you worked in? caller: even though i have a bachelor degree, that is not the degree that i got. although i could go into management in other companies. this is my specialty.

hardshipretty strong trying to get a different kind of job in management. host: what degree did you get? caller: law enforcement with a minor in psychology am a but after working electronics for a couple years, i decided i was making more money than the policeman getting shot at. is it something you could go back to and use now? caller: perhaps. i have considered, especially with what's going on now, trying to go back and getting some be a border patrol guard. when you hear one of our callers from earlier say if you are a young person and you don't have a job, it's because you are not trying to look for a job, do you agree with that statement? caller: i think that would be

true for younger people. once you've reached my age, i am now 51, there is a point where you maybe don't have that gumption, that get up and go to make something happen. when you're younger, you still have a lot of options. degreesen it comes to and unemployment rates associated with which degrees people get in college, here is a story from "the washington post" over the weekend, talking about the value of a humanities degree. in 2011 and 2012 when the economy was in the early stages of recovery, the unemployment was 8.4%, not all that undereyment is overstated

when it comes to humanities majors. that is from stephen pearlstein. he is a business and economics writer. it was in sunday's edition of

"the washington post." on that line for those who stopped looking from pennsylvania. morning. who believes the narrative that the u.s. government should confront in real estate oceanfront in arizona, it is ridiculous -- when you hit over 50, there are computerized systems that are articulated for one specific purpose, to field employment opportunities for individuals. one of the first fields they utilize is based upon your age. that is not touching the direct employment introy america and which has become the national agenda and has amounted to our nation becoming a third world status host: when did you . host: when did you stop looking for a job?

caller: i applied for any number of jobs -- it did not matter what the job is. the computer system evaluates my age and looks in my age and says you are unemployable. that's the way the system is now created in the u.s. it's just the statistics themselves. neededin this country two or three jobs just to survive while the chinese are buying two or three homes, middle class. selling lies on this show, you are selling the seat on the show when you are selling never dips -- narratives from the government which deceived the american people. host: we want to hear your stories and other people's stories this morning were just talking about the jobs numbers out. came u some news out of china from the g20 summit that is happening out

in china from the ap, president obama and vladimir putin on agreed to keep looking for a path to provide humanitarian relief to thousands of syrian citizens. john kerry and sergei lavrov have four weeks been trying to weeksr a deal -- have for been trying to broker a deal. we will look for continued reports on that. we want to keep hearing your stories. paul in orlando, florida on the line for those were underemployed. good morning. why are you underemployed?

caller: yes, i am underemployed. thank you for c-span. of mywas echoing some sentiments. i have a college degree that i cut 30 years ago. -- that ik to school got 30 years ago. i went back to school in 2009 and got an associates degree. i'm a paralegal, i make $20 an hour. the attorney i'm working for is now semiretired. i'm lucky to get in 10 hours a week. go to the bar association luncheon, the paralegal section, membership meetings for networking purposes my mom the internet for hours a -- for networking purposes, i'm on the internet for hours a

day. i don't think people inside the beltway belief that 4.9% unemployment is a legitimate figure. it's the workforce participation rate. i know this is not politically , but sort ofy echoing peter's sentiment, a basicallyworkforce is code for old white guys need not apply. is a chart from business insider showing the labor force participation rate from 1975-2015. see how it around the 1999-2001 timeline. around the

1999-2001 timeline. do you have any student that? caller: i have no student debts. i own a home in one of the downtown orlando neighborhoods. my mortgage is extremely manageable. high heres went crazy in florida come i never used my house like an atm machine. my car is paid off, very little credit card debt. along, but iimp was expressing my frustrations to one of my professors who is an attorney and she told me, paul, you are the wrong section, you are the wrong age. i'm making $20 an hour. some of these attorneys want to

a 20 something for $13 an hour. i would take a job for $13 an hour. what a sad commentary on the obama economy is that? host: tom is up next in rockland, maine. i stopped looking. when did you stop looking and why? caller: three or four years ago. i worked at a company appear that made snowplows. i was making good money and one day, my knee went and i had to have my knee replaced. i was making $19 and hour. all of a sudden, they decided to let me go. they keep talking about bringing these jobs back to america. -- 50 into walmart now

years ago, i started working in the shoe factory in massachusetts and the shoes all went to korea and taiwan and all that. you expect people to bring the and businesses back here you can go into walmart and walk in the front door and there's leather shoes and everything for four or five dollars a pair? america, howack to much do you think it will cost to make a pair of shoes? textiles likento my father -- my grandparents came from poland and they worked at the mills in massachusetts and may textiles and shoes. today and theuter next day, it is already outdated and you throw it out. the jobs that can

be done in america and can be done in a way that it can be competitive price wise when it comes to trying to sell products or whatever that job may be? caller: there are none. the computer industry is disposable. the only thing that will be in this country is health care for us older people. they will have nurses and doctors and everything to take care of us. then they complain about illegal immigrants -- there are no children in this country. american-born children. my mother and father had eight kids and they went through hell because we had too many kids. past since 1960 or so, everyone decided to have one

child. support the social security system if you're a mother and father and you have only one kid who was supposed to kick into the social security , so you have to bring in illegal immigrants. talking about sectors that's all job growth and job loss in august. three sectors that's all losses, the logging and mining industry losses.saw and warehousing software in thousand jobs gained in august. health care and social assistance saw 36,000 jobs gained in august.

see newstry that could job gains in the coming years is the drone industry. over the weekend, news about new regulations finally being set for the drone industry. set ofek, an important federal drone rules finally took effect across the country, making it possible for firms to start using drones in a limited manner. if you want to read more on those drone rules, that story is g with "washington

post." mark is on the line for underemployed. good morning. caller: i'm really unemployed. government is spending too much overseas money. we will give money to countries to rebuild their churches, give money away for them to redo ,heir infrastructure and stuff trying to buy their friendship instead of putting it into work to america. roads in some of our oklahoma are in bad shape and things. host: you are looking for a big

infrastructure spending package here in the u.s.? you think that would help boost the jobs? caller: yes. there is aging bridges you hear about all the time and roads, the railroad lines. you could have more transportation to cut down on , expansionike rail of amtrak to places and stuff. you think the stimulus spending that came during the economic downturn that president , do yous pushing for think that helped? onp create jobs and focus the issues you are talking about? caller: i think it does help. the cities that have done it have made it towards help with jobs.

for we have the ambassadors for i don'tting remember how many millions of dollars to give to russia to ,uild their churches and stuff that is money that could be here employing people, letting people retire early. morris and ft. wayne, indiana on the line for those who stopped working. stopped looking. when did you stop looking and why? caller: i'm a retired machinist.

and also a retired machinery dealer. i've been throughout united for the past 20 years buying and selling machinery and looking at industry. what blows my mind is everybody wants to blame somebody. it's impossible because you have a school system that wants to tell everybody they need a college education in order to make a living. a machinist today can make $2535 an hour the pending where he's $25 -- can make $25-30 five dollars an hour depending goat.re he's that

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medical manufacturing. we serve about 65% of the medicare population for the home medical equipment needs. host: when we talk about home health care, the industry in general, does that include things like hospice? guest: home health is a broad term. people think of home health they are thinking of the personal side, nurses coming to the home. on the medical equipment side and the hospice population would be a population we would serve. when people have medical needs, rehab, walkers, complex urological needs, things like that, encompasses our industry. host: most home health care patients are senior citizens? guest: we have a myriad of patients, anywhere from the

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when you want to repeal it today, administrative judges are backed up two years. i understand your concern, as a consumer, you want to pay less. you also talk about wanting choice. medicaree strictly a patient, your choices are becoming limited. host: deborah in virginia. also a home health care patient. caller: thank you for being here. you are placing many interesting views on this. i am a health care patient but i'm also -- i was also a homecare provider as a nurse for many years. i have had ms for 30 years, worked for many years as a nurse with it. now i am homebound and i have humana. they have helped me as far as homecare goes, a monthly phone call. they have done absolutely zero tosend anyone to my house --

talk to me, to do anything. i am placing blame on the insurance industry. idea,are is a wonderful and everybody will blame president obama for what has happened with the prices rising, when actually, it's the insurance industry that has come back and said we will not pay for this stuff. we are not going to do this. thatbody is saying obamacare came in and we are not getting this or that, but it is the insurance industry that is not paying for these different services. i'm not sure what the answer is with humana, but a few years ago, they did not pay for my medication either. i think the insurance industry itself is where the problems lie. i think there needs to be an investigation into the reimbursements. certainly, we have to change the reimbursement structure.

you can look across the industry and see the proper rates with insurance companies. that is a concern to everybody. goal is to have beneficiary satisfaction, a good health care outcome, and do it in a cost-effective way. that is valley-based purchasing. it is often counterintuitive to where the cuts are. your point is, you get a phone call a month. could eventually prevent readmission of a disease. that is where we need to refocus where health care is given. if i look at the copd population , where medicare is concerned that 20% of the population, when they have a hospitalization, israel admitted within 30 days, to me, that is counterintuitive

that their home respiratory care provider is being commoditized. if you put those services back into the home, patient preferred, economically the best situation, and at the end of the day, you will get a better outcome. we could have a more robust health care system today. companies are try andarse certain dollars, the cost of acute-care today is significant. the physician cost, hospital cost are significant. at the end of the day, they dole out the dollars. we have to reshuffle the deck and put more dollars in at home patient preferred environments to give us good clinical outcomes. but do not do it in a way that we will be commoditized, pulling back on the standard of care. medicare reimbursement

adjustments that you are talking about, how much does the federal government think it is saving medicare by making these adjustments? at the cmsou look press releases, they are saving billions of dollars. at the end of the day, they look me benefit andd look at the savings. if we look at the continuum of care, and if you change that standard of care, and that copd patient is readmitted, we will have more part a costs. folks in this building behind me returned from vacation and they see billions in savings from this adjustment, where does the money come from, if you want to change that adjustment back to whether it is the old system or another fix? how do you sell this as something that is fiscally responsible? guest: being fiscally

responsible in this town is important. the legislation we have had has been self-funded by the industry. we have been taking dollars from other areas of the industry. the last bill out there would take reimbursement from medicare and have that become the new rate in 2019. pay-fors ourselves hanging by the industry. we've got to look at the industry as a whole. again, i keep going back to the message, if you are going to pay $79 for all the options you can consume in rural or urban america, and because of that, you can no longer send the rt into the home, and they are readmitted into the hospital, and you will have a higher cost in the acute-care setting.

at the end of the day, we need a triple aim. we have to save the dollars, i understand that. linda is a home health patient in south carolina. caller: good morning. you -- myted to tell husband is on dialysis and he has home health. him not toas helped keep going to the centers, infections and stuff like that with other people. it is wonderful for him to be at home. i am thankful for home help. all the way around, it makes our lives easier and better. host: have you found it more affordable? caller: we have somebody that comes out and helps us lifting things and stuff like that.

it helps us in general, everything around it. in and out of the hospitals, those costs are up. guest: you are a perfect example of success. you are on patient preferred, want to be inyou your home, and you are getting dialysis. you don't want to be in a hospital setting. infection rates at the hospital are significant. it seems like you are a success out there. the reason we should put more dollars into home health care. cheryl, onchusetts, the line for all others. i wanted to talk more about the bidding process. i am a nurse. i work in a clinic with respiratory patients. oxygen, a lot of

nebulizers for our patients. one of the nightmares that we recently had because of the billing process is we did not have one dme company that could provide nebulizers for patients in the entire greater boston area. we now have one. we had to begin ordering from companies that in the past had been approved in the billing .rocess from other states of course, there was no to meet face-to-face with patients, and massachusetts is one of the few states that requires that, which means the patient has to come back in so that we can show them how to use the equipment, which takes us away from the clinical work that we normally do, but we want to make sure they are comfortable. i just want to know, when is this going to end? you are giving a perfect

example of the changes happening in the services out there, and the nebulizer is a great point. that is a reimbursement that is so diminished. the home medical agreement provider will get seven dollars for 13 months. that nebulizer, and now nobody within 50 miles within your patient, they will ups it, and will not get the proper instruction. the first line of offense when you are treating pulmonary disease, the ability to get bronchodilators to that patient. ordering a nebulizer, because of the bid program, is an example of the prostration we have. the secondary consequences to earlierke one of the callers decided, to buy it on your own, if you try to get reimbursed for the

bronchodilators, you will not get reimbursed. a perfect example of the changing standard of care happening in this industry. you talk about the shift of the care and the dollars going back into your hospital and clinic, and that is time that could be spent in the home with a professional. host: sioux falls, south dakota. cindy. caller: good morning. i just wanted to talk about how this affect rural providers. we are from a very rural state. we have had significant changes in our business over the last nine months. we want to take care of the patient. we are there to take care of the patient, not only for the equipment needs, but for their well-being, and for them to be

able to stay in their homes. what we are finding is, in order to stay fiscally viable, which we want to do, because we want to take care of those patients, we are having to make some tough how we take care of those patients, or who we take care of. we have looked at our service area, and as you know, people in , we have a lot of elderly patients who cannot travel. sold by us limiting our service area, it limits the equipment needs or supplies that these people can get. host: how big is your business? caller: we service all of south dakota, iowa -- part of iowa, part of nebraska.

we had 15 locations in those areas. with the medicare reimbursement changes, if they continue as they are, are you going to have to let people go, what will be the impact on the business side, as opposed to the patient side? caller: from the business side, we have a lot of changes. ave nsarily l ly h peopl not re ser loo at oudelive models. we now have storefronts where patients can come in, we have deliveries where we go out and service the patient in their home. those delivery models are changing. guest: you set the perfect example of what has happened. you have had to make adjustments in your business that will not benefit the patients we serve.

the main reason you are making these adjustments is because, in december of last year, you are getting reimbursed a reasonable dollar amount. later, your reimbursement has been decreased over 50% without an increased market share. you service parts of south dakota. know,mportant for you to we have people in that town who understand the concern and who believe that these rates have been phased in much too quickly. senator thuman from south dakota has been one of our heroes. it was his bill in the senate that would delay those cuts for talk months. what are the chances that legislation will move in the next four weeks before they leave again in october? guest: we had a bill that passed

in the house, and all that passed in the senate, and both were significant for the industry. to take the first round cut that already happened on january 1, 25%, keep that in place, and then stopped the cuts for 12 months, so we can look at outcomes and determine whether providers can see a change in service. this is legislation before the president? we have taken our champion in the house, we got through the summer, still a want and need to get something done. when they left town in july, there were many reasons why that did not get accomplished. patient, please call your member of congress. my goal is when they come back,

we get legislation passed, and is signed by the president, and then we go back to the cuts that were in january. and we hold that up for 12 months, and let see what the outcomes are, so we don't have outcomes like we have today. host: sharon is in new york. caller: i have been a home care recipient for many years, long-term care. i have been physically disabled most of my life. in new york city, they are paid by medicaid, and they are set at .n extremely low rate it has become almost impossible to bring people in to provide home health care.

is there any kind of legislation concerning that? i certainly understand your issue, my dad is also living at home, we have a home health aide that comes in to take care of him. that is not the industry i represent, but to your point, there is a lot of care being given by those health care workers. a very good reimbursement they get. the increase in the minimum wage will be a concern for that industry as well. that,t have a solution to but it shows there is a real need out there. very often, patients have to pay out-of-pocket for their needs. host: let's go to bill in erie, pennsylvania. good morning.

i want to wish everyone a happy labor day. anyone out there still fortunate enough to have a job after this economy. , wanted to ask your guest i hear that one in three children are obese. then i hear 70% of senior americans are obese. i look to my left and i see my neighbor, 100 50 pounds overweight, runs around on a scooter all day. he is not getting any exercise. he got the scooter because he could. the neighbor on my right, the whole family is on cpap. they are all overweight. has an effect on people using cpaps. we keep hearing about the affordable care act. concerned, all of

this stuff is affordable, people can get half-price or free. but between the two candidates, which one is the best, as far as getting this mess straightened out? the mall, and you just sit there and watch the people go by, 50 pounds overweight, 100 pounds overweight. is killing people and nobody can stand up to them and say you have to stop eating and start exercising. host: we got your point. that is a tough question. teston't want to means society and say you have that maintain your proper diet, nutrition, we should reimburse your care. i understand what you are saying, it's a problem. , as part of the human population, we have to

understand the result of what we do every day will have an outcome. i am an advocate for healthy america. i hope to get my 10,000 steps in. i understand your problem, because obesity causes a married of issues. those patients you talked about next door with sleep apnea, often a result of obesity. i don't know how i can solve that problem today, which candidate has a better plan for that. i just don't know. but i agree it is an issue. with a few minutes left tom ryan, the ceo of the american association of home .are catherine is in ohio. thank you for accepting my call. my husband is receiving home health care because he have a massive heart attack four weeks

ago. i am think will for them. , why doesn'ts congress do their job and take the cap off of social security, , theat the very rich working poor, middle class, upper-middle-class, they all pay their fair share? elite, the ones that to pay thest money least. make everyone pay the same price. my husband and i used to be upper-middle-class, that we are not anymore because of his health. the amount of medication he receives has put us in dire straits. it is unfair. why doesn't congress do their job of negotiating with the drug companies for prices on medications?

my husband is a diabetic, no fault of his own. he was in and out of the hospital for 20 years with copd and other issues. he is now a diabetic. insulin has been on the market since the 1880's. why don't we have a generic? you lay out the problems in health care in america today. reimbursing --ng if you make a higher dollar amount, you pay more -- that is something that is being talked to the candidates. you can lobby your government, that is your right to do. hopefully, advocate for changes. your husband as copd, in and out of the hospital. from take dollars away significant medical equipment,

where he needs it at home, and we are limiting care in that environment, causing an increase in care on the acute side. let's balance the health care system properly, put dollars back where they should be. at the end of the day, let's pay for outcomes, let's have beneficiary satisfaction, good health care outcomes, and have it done in an economic way. host: when people go to vote, can they look to your association for an endorsement? guest: we do not endorse. host: one kind of organization are you? guest: we are a non-for-profit 5013 c organization, and advocacy organization. dealing with that medicare environment, it is highly regulated. we have a regulatory part of our association that constantly works with the rules that medicare puts out there, to have

fairer rules for our patients and providers. we are the only national organization representing the breast of adequate providers and equipment, anything from a ventilator to a walker. host: wilma is a home health care patient. husband used in the home health care nurses when he had open heart surgery. stroke, after two of our kids died on the same day. now i'm having difficulty walking. while he was being taken care of for his heart, he broke both knees. now we had difficulty walking, and our dr. gave us a ,rescription for something

because we love to walk. but we have fallen numerous times while we are walking. , when we two doctors asked for a prescription for this thing that you push, and then you can sit down and rest a .ittle while, he said no i don't want one dime of my money going to buy anything for an old senior citizen, so we changed doctors. this and dr. gave us the prescription but now we cannot find a place that has those roll inators. all of is is a study chair that you push, you pull the seat down when you are tired. before you and rest can walk more. can you tell me where i can get one? thank you. guest: this is a fairly common

piece of equipment. this is another item, because of the competitive bid arena, if you don't want to pay out-of-pocket, it can be difficult to get. you can look to providers who won the bid for the type of product, but that is one of the products that has more than the basic model. if you want to have it paid through medicare, it is difficult. ryan, ceo of the american association for home care. thank you so much for your time this morning. that will do it for today's program. tomorrow, congress returns. the house and senate are back in. we are focusing on the congressional schedule ahead. we will be talking about the issues and legislative challenges congress faces in its

four weeks before it goes back on recess ahead of election day. we will also talk about the senate elections. will be here to talk about the key senate races. that is coming up tomorrow. before we go, a very big thank you to our studio technician who has been with our program for 11 years. this is her final week with c-span. best of luck to you in your road ahead. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2016] >> this labor day, c-span

continues our road to the white house coverage. this afternoon at 2:00, we are live from cleveland with hillary clinton and vice presidential candidate tim kaine, as i lay out their plan for the nation's economy. then green party presidential candidate jill stein and vice presidential candidate baraka. gary johnson stops in des moines, iowa. on this unofficial end of summer, labor day, and a created to honor the american labor movement and celebrate the contributions that americans have made to the country. several members of congress are tweeting about what they are doing today.