“$2.7 billion settlement in CalPERS long-term care insurance lawsuit is canceled,” by Wes Venteicher, Sacramento Bee    Quote: “An agreement in which CalPERS would have paid up to $2.7 billion to settle a lawsuit over the cost of its long-term care coverage has been scrapped, creating new uncertainty for tens of thousands of policyholders. … The settlement in the class-action lawsuit, reached last July, gave policyholders a choice: they could give up their plans and get a refund of all premiums they had paid — up to about $50,000 — or they could opt out of the settlement and keep
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“Long-Term Care in the United States — Problems and Solutions,” by Susan L. Mitchell, et al., New England Journal of Medicine   Quote: “The Covid-19 pandemic, with its devastating effects on nursing home residents and staff, has drawn renewed attention to problems in the U.S. system of long-term care. But the underlying issues are long-standing. In this Perspective Roundtable, moderator and geriatrician Susan Mitchell is joined by four experts in long-term care — Shawn Bloom, David Gifford, David Grabowski, and Jasmine Travers — in assessing the current system’s most pressing gaps and challenges and envisioning the most promising directions for the
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