“Medicaid Weighs Attaching Strings to Nursing Home Payments to Improve Patient Care,” by Susan Jaffe, Kaiser Health News Quote: “The Biden administration is considering a requirement that the nation’s 15,500 nursing homes spend most of their payments from Medicaid on direct care for residents and limit the amount that is used for operations, maintenance, and capital improvements or diverted to profits. … If adopted, it would be the first time the federal government insists that nursing homes devote the majority of Medicaid dollars to caring for residents. The strategy, which has not yet been formally proposed, is among several steps officials
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“OPM Expects to ‘Revise’ FLTCIP Premiums, Could Temporarily Bar New Enrollments,” FedWeek    Quote: “OPM has said that it ‘has determined that there is a strong likelihood’ that Federal Long-Term Care Insurance Program premium rates will need to be ‘revised’ — which history suggests will mean ‘raised.’”   LTC Comment, Stephen A. Moses, President, Center for Long-Term Care Reform: Setting premiums so future benefits can be paid is a moving target, except for government, which simply borrows, prints, taxes, inflates or defaults when entitlement trust funds run out.       Subscribe to GoldenCare News  
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“A Two-Year Reprieve For Medicare Insolvency Sounds Like Good News. But It Isn’t,” by Howard Gleckman, Forbes    Quote: “Congress could create a fully-funded public long-term care insurance program to help families pay the high costs of these supports and services. In a perfect world, Congress would do a top-to-bottom redesign of Medicare. That won’t happen, but lawmakers can’t continue to look the other way while one of the most important—and most popular—federal program gradually collapses.”     LTC Comment, Stephen A. Moses, President, Center for Long-Term Care Reform: Policy schizophrenia: a whole column about what’s wrong with Medicare from a guy
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