Urban Institute Report Analyzes Potential Long-Term Care Models

November 25, 2015 at 10:46 AM
Urban Institute reports that some sort of individual mandate for long-term care insurance will be necessary if Congress wants to control Medicaid spending when large numbers of baby boomers need long-term care in the coming decades. The Affordable Care Act requirement to buy health insurance ended up before the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled it constitutional, but Democrats took a beating at the polls for that policy. Medicaid pays the brunt of cost of long-term care, and the number of...


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