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Long-term care financing reform: lessons from the u.s. And abroad’, commonwealth fund pub (2010).
| Content Provider | CiteSeerX |
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| Author | Gleckman, Howard |
| Abstract | ABSTRACT: As part of health care reform, Congress is considering the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) Act. The measure would mark the most significant change since 1965 in the way the U.S. finances long-term care, the personal assistance delivered both at home and in nursing facilities to the frail elderly and other adults with disabilities. As policymakers consider the CLASS Act, they may be able to learn from past experiments in the U.S. as well as from the experiences of other major industrialized countries, most of which have migrated to universal, government-run financing systems. Although those models vary markedly in their specifics, they appear to be both broadly popular and somewhat more costly than expected. By contrast, the CLASS Act is a voluntary system that attempts to meld public insurance with private long-term care coverage and Medicaid. Support for this research was provided by The Commonwealth Fund. The views presented here |
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| Publisher Date | 2010-01-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Long-term Care Commonwealth Fund Pub Class Act Nursing Facility Government-run Financing System Voluntary System Community Living Assistance Service Personal Assistance Health Care Reform Public Insurance Commonwealth Fund Past Experiment Private Long-term Care Coverage Significant Change |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
