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Article: New programs to help more Floridians get long-term care.
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- South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
- Article date:
- September 18, 2006
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Byline: Diane C. Lade
Sep. 18--By next year, Floridians will be able to buy something that the federal government hopes will revolutionize nursing home care: a simplified long-term care insurance policy that has been reviewed and certified by state regulators. Florida is one of about 20 states slated to create new Medicaid Partnership long-term care insurance programs as a result of a federal law setting the ground rules for such plans that passed in February. Purchasers would be allowed to keep up to hundreds of thousands of dollars in the bank and still qualify for Medicaid, which is federal health care for the poor and the only government program that ...