“Keep an eye on Washington state initiative, long-term care insurance expert cautions”

“Keep an eye on Washington state initiative, long-term care insurance expert cautions,” by Kathleen Steele Gaivin, McKnights Senior Living

“As the one-year anniversary of the effective date of the country’s first publicly operated, tax-based long-term care insurance program approaches July 1, voters in Washington state ‘are being given the choice to make the program optional, and early polling shows that’s very likely to happen,’ Jesse Slome, director of the American Association for Long-Term Care Insurance, said Wednesday.”

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

It looks like WA Cares will follow the Pepper Commission, CLASS, and a series of Medicaid and LTC Commissions into the sinkhole of failed compulsory government takeover plans.