“Healthcare infrastructure missing ‘centralized access point’ to long-term care: experts,” by Danielle Brown, McKnight’s LTC News
Quote:
“The healthcare industry is lacking a centralized, community-based resource that can easily direct families to long-term care services and support when the time arises, according to three prominent industry experts.”
LTC Comment, Stephen A. Moses, President, Center for Long-Term Care Reform:
What else is new? Three experts propose an expensive “solution” with no clue how to pay for it, much less why the problem exists in the first place. We have no “centralized, community-based resource” because America relies on a fragmented, publicly financed long-term care system. If we had a free market for long-term care, consumers would vote with their dollars for home care instead of institutionalization. Entrepreneurs would scramble to create easy access to the best and most preferred kinds of care. The poor would rely on private charity and a residual social safety net much smaller than the Medicaid behemoth we have today that chokes off innovation and traps the unwary on welfare.
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