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October 02, 2012 at 08:26 PM
Researchers are wondering whether the United States can learn something from other countries that have set up long-term care (LTC) finance programs that are supposed to pay for LTC services for all residents who end up needing the services.
The researchers, Nancy Folbre of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Douglas Wolf of Syracuse University, have edited a free e-book, Universal Coverage of Long-Term Care in the United States, that includes chapters from people like Howard Gleckman, a retirement policy specialist at the Urban Institute, and David Stevenson, a health policy professor at Harvard.
Some of the other contributors are on the staff at LTC services or long-term care insurance (LTCI) organizations: Marc Cohen, the chief research and development officer at LifePlans; Eileen Tell of Univita; and Mary Jo Gibson, who used to be with AARP.
The editors said they began to work on the book in 2011, after the voluntary LTC benefits program that was part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA) failed.
Several contributors write about the challenges involved with using some combination of Medicaid, p.jpg "Earth")
rivate insurance and “gap filling” insurance to cover LTC costs.
Stevenson, Cohen, Tell and Brian Burwell write in a chapter on LTC finance that there should be more than enough work for all possible LTC financial support providers to go around.
Norway, for example, provides LTC services as a public service, and German provides LTC financing through a universal insurance program.
