Papers and Products
- Long-Term Care Financing: Options for the Future
Summary and Overview
Full Paper
Judith Feder, Harriet L. Komisar, and Robert B. Friedland
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
- 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)
- 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?
- 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? (new window)” 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)
- Transforming Care for Medicare Beneficiaries with Chronic Conditions and Long-Term Care Needs: Coordinating Care Across All Services by Harriet L. Komisar and Judy Feder
- The Importance of Federal Financing to the Nation’s Long-Term Care Safety Net by Judy Feder and Harriet L. Komisar
- Ellen O’Brien, Health Policy Institute, “Long-Term Care: Understanding Medicaid’s Role for the Elderly and Disabled. (new window)” 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.
- MSPP Professor Judy Feder Issues Alternative Report on Long-Term Care Solutions