you have the bios available to you, but a quick introduction, howard gleckman, josh wiener, matt salo, the national association of medicare directors, and then stephen moses with a long-term care center -- >> center for long-term care reform. >> take it away. >> let's try to get the slide. ok, very good. thank you very much. i very much appreciate the opportunity to talk with you, and i want to thank joe antos and aei for hosting me and the panel. i look forward to the discussion and hopefully this will be in the spirit in which i wrote the paper, which is really to as preparation for the commission and my role in the commission and perhaps am helped to the members to try to identify what are the issues and what are the questions, what oath we know, do we know, does the evidence indicate a direction we should look further into, or what do we not know at all about this very complex area of long-term care, the financing of long-term care, the provision of services, to a lot of different types of populations, disabled, elderly, and so that is when i was appointed as commissioner, i want

look at what we're seeing in the news with folks like anthony wiener. in some ways, the whole thing is out of control. it's interesting that a lot of people said they wouldn't do anything which tells me that a lot of the texts are probably not as graphic but more in that middle zone of flirtation. and i think in the end we have to get some control of technology. i think it's really just advancing at such a rapid pace that it's really ahead of our relationships. >> but yet very much a part of it as we know so i would say, you know, what is the text? is it a little flirtatious or is it more x-rated. we want toalk about what is a sext and what is more harmless. >> and flirtation too. how much are you going to allow in your relationship. >> throughout this study we saw in any flirting scenario people are willing to allow a degree of flirtation. whether it's with a partner's best friend. >> the survey said 45% would confront their friend if their friend was flirting with their boyfriend or girlfriend. 34% said they would let it go. >> yeah. >> thank you so m