“Universal coverage of long-term care for older Americans may stabilize provider revenues: A report calls for establishing universal coverage for all Americans’ long-term care needs through Medicare,” by Jeff Lagasse, Healthcare Finance

 

Quote:

“The report proposes a system of universal coverage to support the long-term care of all older Americans. The purpose would be to protect against financial catastrophe, and to move away from a system in which only the poorest Americans are able to access coverage via Medicaid.”

 

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

Yet another report that wants universal LTC from Medicare without addressing how to pay for it and ignores the fact that Medicaid already pays for most LTC for the middle class as well as the poor. Disregarding economic reality has similar consequences to ignoring physical reality when a locomotive is bearing down on you.