What Progress Did the Congressionally-Appointed Long Term Care Commission Make: An Interview with Judy Feder (September 30th)
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Listen Now As part of last year's "fiscal cliff" agreement the Congress created a Long Term Care/LTC Commission tasked to make recommendations to improve LTC delivery. (The Commission was created largely as a result of the demise of the ACA's CLASS Act. See the related August 5th interview with Connie Garner.) Today more than 12 million Americans rely on LTC services and this number will grow dramatically as baby boomers age. Currently however only impoverished older Americans and the disabled are covered via state Medicaid programs and because few companies offer LTC policies (and because annual premiums are expensive), only about 8 million Americans have private LTC insurance. As a result LTC services are provided moreover informally by 42 million Americans at an AARP estimated out-of-pocket cost of $450 billion annually. In mid-September the 15-member LTC Commission voted 9-6 in approving 28 recommendations. The six dissenting votes were largely due to Commission's failure to address
What Progress Did the Congressionally-Appointed Long Term Care Commission Make: An Interview with Judy Feder (September 30th)
What Progress Did the…
What Progress Did the Congressionally-Appointed Long Term Care Commission Make: An Interview with Judy Feder (September 30th)
Listen Now As part of last year's "fiscal cliff" agreement the Congress created a Long Term Care/LTC Commission tasked to make recommendations to improve LTC delivery. (The Commission was created largely as a result of the demise of the ACA's CLASS Act. See the related August 5th interview with Connie Garner.) Today more than 12 million Americans rely on LTC services and this number will grow dramatically as baby boomers age. Currently however only impoverished older Americans and the disabled are covered via state Medicaid programs and because few companies offer LTC policies (and because annual premiums are expensive), only about 8 million Americans have private LTC insurance. As a result LTC services are provided moreover informally by 42 million Americans at an AARP estimated out-of-pocket cost of $450 billion annually. In mid-September the 15-member LTC Commission voted 9-6 in approving 28 recommendations. The six dissenting votes were largely due to Commission's failure to address