Papers and Products

Overview

• Long-Term Care Financing: Options for the Future
  Summary and Overview
  Full Paper
  Judith Feder, Harriet L. Komisar, and Robert B. Friedland

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Working Papers - Financing Options

• No. 1 Medi-LTC: A New Medicare Long-Term Care Proposal
  John Cutler, Lisa M. Shulman, and Mark Litow
• No. 2 The Life Care Annuity: A Proposal for an Insurance Product Innovation to Simultaneously Improve Financing and Benefit Provision for Long-Term Care and to Insure the Risk of Outliving Assets in Retirement
  Mark J. Warshawsky
• No. 3 Forced Savings as an Option to Improve Financing of Long-Term Care
  James Knickman
• No. 4 Long-Term Care Policy Option Proposal: Consumer Controlled Chronic, Home, and Community Care for the Elderly and Disabled
  Marty Lynch, Carroll Estes, and Mauro Hernandez
• No. 5 A Federal Catastrophic Long-Term Care Insurance Program
  Christine E. Bishop
• No. 6 Linking Medicare and Private Health Insurance for Long-Term Care
  Anne Tumlinson and Jeanne Lambrew
• No. 7 A Trade-Off Proposal for Funding Long-Term Care
  Yung-Ping Chen
• No. 8 A Proposal to Finance Long-Term Care Services Through Medicare With an Income Tax Surcharge
  Leonard E. Burman and Richard W. Johnson

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Essay

• Faces of Long-Term Care: A Look in the Mirror

Fact Sheets

• National Spending for Long-Term Care (February 2007)
• Medicaid's Spousal Impoverishment Protections (February 2007)
• Medicare and Long-Term Care (February 2007)
• National Spending for Long-Term Care (January 2007)
• Medicaid and Long-Term Care (January 2007)
• Medicaid and an Aging Population (July 2004)
• Who Pays for Long-Term Care? (July 2004)
• Medicaid and Long-Term Care (May 2003)
• Private Long-Term Care Insurance (May 2003)
• Tax Code Treatment of Long-Term Care and Long-Term Care Insurance (May 2003)
• Who Needs Long-Term Care? (May 2003)
• Who Pays for Long-Term Care? (May 2003)

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Issue Briefs

• Community-Based Long-Term Services Financed by Medicaid: Managing Resources to Provide Appropriate Medicaid Services
• Caregivers and Long-Term Care Needs in the 21st Century: Will Public Policy Meet the Challenge?
• Consumer Protection and Long-Term Care Insurance: Predictability of Premiums
• Long-Term Care: Support for Family Caregivers
• Medicaid's coverage of nursing home costs: Asset shelter for the wealthy or essential safety net?

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Other Publications

• Choices and Consequences: The Availability of Community-Based Long-Term Care Services to the Low-Income Population
  Executive Summary
  Full Report
• Home Equity Conversion Mortgages and Long-Term Care
  Executive Summary
  Full Report
• Long-Term Care and the Policy Agenda, Conference Remarks by William Scanlon
• "Long-Term Care Over an Uncertain Future: What Can Current Retirees Expect?" Article in Inquiry
• View the Webcast and transcript from the May 21, 2003 policy forum, The 21st Century Challenge: Providing and Paying for Long-Term Care (on kaisernetwork.org)

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Related Reports

• Ellen O'Brien, Health Policy Institute, "Long-Term Care: Understanding Medicaid's Role for the Elderly and Disabled." Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, November 2005.
  
  
• Laura L. Summer, Health Policy Institute, "Strategies to Keep Consumers Needing Long-Term Care in the Community and Out of Nursing Facilities" Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, October 2005.

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