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Long-Term Care: Availability of Medicaid Home and Community Services for Elderly Individuals Varies Considerably

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "As the baby boomers age, spending on long-term care for the elderly could quadruple by 2050. The growing demand for long-term care will put pressure on federal and state budgets because long-term care relies heavily on public financing, particularly Medicaid. Nursing home care traditionally has accounted for most Medicaid long-term care expenditures, but the high costs of such care and the preference of many i… more
Date: September 26, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Long-Term Care: Elderly Individuals Could Find Significant Variation in the Availability of Medicaid Home and Community Services

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "As the baby boomers age, spending on long-term care for the elderly could quadruple by 2050. The growing demand for long-term care will put pressure on federal and state budgets because long-term care relies heavily on public financing, particularly Medicaid. Nursing home care traditionally has accounted for most Medicaid long-term care expenditures, but the high costs of such care and the preference of many individ… more
Date: September 26, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Long-Term Care: Federal Oversight of Growing Medicaid Home and Community-Based Waivers Should Be Strengthened

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Home and community-based settings have become a growing part of states' Medicaid long-term care programs, serving as an alternative to care in institutional settings, such as nursing homes. To cover such services, however, states often obtain waivers from certain federal statutory requirements. GAO was asked to review (1) trends in states' use of Medicaid home and community-based service (HCBS) waivers, partic… more
Date: June 20, 2003
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Long-Term Care: Baby Boom Generation Increases Challenge of Financing Needed Services

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The confluence of the aging baby boom generation, longer life expectancies, and evolving options for providing and financing long-term care services will require substantial public and private investment in long-term care and the development of sufficient capacity to serve this growing population. Spending for long-term care was about $134 billion in 1999. Medicaid and Medicare paid for nearly 58 percent of these s… more
Date: March 27, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Long-Term Care: Aging Baby Boom Generation Will Increase Demand and Burden on Federal and State Budgets

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "As more and more of the baby boomers enter retirement age, spending for Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security is expected to absorb correspondingly larger shares of federal revenue and crowd out other spending. The aging of the baby boomers will also increase the demand for long-term care and contribute to federal and state budget burdens. The number of disabled elderly who cannot perform daily living activities w… more
Date: March 21, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Long-Term Care: Implications of Supreme Court's Olmstead Decision Are Still Unfolding

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "In the Olmstead case, the Supreme Court decided that states were violating title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) if they provided care to disabled people in institutional settings when they could be a appropriately served in a home or community-based setting. Considerable attention has focused on the decision's implications for Medicaid, the dominant public program supporting long-term care i… more
Date: September 24, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Factors Affecting the Demand for Long-Term Care Insurance: Issues for Congress

Description: This report discusses the role of Long-term Care Insurance (LCTI) in financing Long-term Care Services and Supports (LTSS) and current trends in the LTCI industry; factors affecting the demand for LTCI, including cost complexity of the product and adequacy of consumer protections; and legislative options available to address these issues.
Date: January 16, 2013
Creator: Mulvey, Janemarie
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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