“2022 SSI and Spousal Impoverishment Standards,” Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services      Quote: “Included with this Informational Bulletin is the 2022 SSI and Spousal Impoverishment Standards chart that displays the new standards. These standards are also available on Medicaid.gov at https://www.medicaid.gov/medicaid/eligibility/spousal-impoverishment/index.html. States should update their standards in accordance with this information for the provisions that become effective on January 1, 2022.”     LTC Comment, Stephen A. Moses, President, Center for Long-Term Care Reform: Bottom line: more millionaires on Medicaid. The maximum home equity exemption jumped from $906,000 in 2021 to $955,000 in 2022. Sometimes inflation is as
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“Can Viagra Prevent Alzheimer’s?,” by Judy George, MedPage Today    Quote: “Sildenafil (Viagra, Revatio) may be a candidate drug to prevent or treat Alzheimer’s disease, new research suggested.” He has founded Paragon to take these initiatives to a new level, including helping the next administration to be ready to implement an array of free-market health reform initiatives. His first presentation was this week to the American Legislative Exchange Conference in San Diego to release his first book, “Don’t Wait for Washington: How States Can Reform Health Care Today.”  It offers commonsense, innovative solutions about reforming state employee health plans, scaling back
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  “Increasing Medicaid’s Stagnant Asset Test For People Eligible For Medicare And Medicaid Will Help Vulnerable Seniors,” by Noelle Cornelio, Melissa Powell McInerney, Jennifer M. Mellor, Eric T. Roberts, and Lindsay M. Sabik, Health Affairs Quote: “Low-income Medicare beneficiaries rely on Medicaid for supplemental coverage but must meet income and asset tests to qualify. We examined states’ income and asset tests for full-benefit Medicaid during the period 2006–18 and examined how alternative asset tests would affect eligibility for community-dwelling Medicare beneficiaries ages sixty-five and older. Most states have not updated the dollar limit of Medicaid’s asset test since 1989, making
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“Paragon Health Institute,” by Grace-Marie Turner, Galen Institute    Quote: “Paragon Health Institute:  Huge kudos to Galen Senior Fellow Brian Blase for launching his new think tank, Paragon Health Institute.  Brian served in the White House 2017-2019 as a top health policy advisor and mustered an enormous record of success. He has founded Paragon to take these initiatives to a new level, including helping the next administration to be ready to implement an array of free-market health reform initiatives. His first presentation was this week to the American Legislative Exchange Conference in San Diego to release his first book, “Don’t Wait for Washington: How
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