The Price of Caring

JEAN CHATZKY is the financial editor of NBC TODAY, AARP Financial Ambassador, and host of the weekly podcast HerMoney with Jean Chatzky. Jean is an award-winning personal finance journalist, whose latest book is Women with Money: The Judgment Free Guide to Creating the Joyful, Less Stressed, Purposeful (and Yes, Rich) Life You Deserve.

BERTHA COOMBS is a reporter for CNBC, covering financial markets, business news stories and health care throughout the business day. She is based at the Nasdaq Market-Site in Times Square.

DEBBIE DINGELL is a Democratic congresswoman representing Michigan’s 12th District in the U.S. House of Representatives. Before being elected to Congress, she worked in the auto industry for more than three decades, where she was President of the General Motors (GM) Foundation and a senior executive responsible for public affairs.

TOM REED is a Republican congressman representing New York's 23rd District in the U.S. House of Representatives. He is co-chair of the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus, a group of 24 Republicans and 24 Democrats who come together weekly to solve some of the most divisive issues facing our country today.

KRISTEN WELKER is an NBC News White House Correspondent whose hard-hitting political reporting appears across all NBC News and MSNBC platforms, including “NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt,” “TODAY,” “Meet the Press,” and NBCNews.com.

LEE WOODRUFF is co-founder of the Bob Woodruff Foundation and co-author of the New York Times best-selling In an Instant, a compelling and humorous chronicle of her family’s journey to recovery following her husband Bob’s roadside bomb injury in Iraq. The couple has since helped put a face on the serious issue of traumatic brain injury among returning Iraq war veterans.