“The social contract for long-term care”

“The social contract for long-term care,” by Stephen A. Moses, McKnight’s LTC News

 

Quote:  “Without estate recovery, an enormous source of private LTC financing (home equity) is lost forever and Medicaid becomes a tax-payer financed windfall to heirs at the expense of program resources that should go to the poor. It behooves long-term care providers to stop the MACPAC proposal from passing. We need to strengthen America’s long-term care social contract, not cripple it. To understand the reasoning, evidence and recommendations that led to passage of OBRA ’93 mandating estate recoveries, read Medicaid Estate Recoveries: National Program Inspection, a 1988 report by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General. (Full disclosure: I conducted that study and wrote that report.)”

LTC Comment, Stephen A. Moses, President, Center for Long-Term Care Reform:

This is our first shot in a campaign to protect the social contract for long-term care. Many thanks to McKnight’s LTC News for publishing it.