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Article: Long-term care: still a political stepchild? (health care reform)
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- Nursing Homes
- Article date:
- March 1, 1992
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Even though health care reform is a major item on the Election Year political agenda, proposals addressing long-term care are all but nonexistent.
President George Bush's reform proposal, for example, contrary to helping funding for long-term care, may actually force more Americans to pay for nursing home care from their own resources. In recommending various administrative reforms and tax credits to enhance access to coverage for the uninsured, the Administration attempts to balance this with a lower ceiling on federal contributions to Medicaid. Analysts predict that states already struggling to meet their share of Medicaid costs would respond to the President's ...