Please join us and others this week across the country incontinuing our advocacy around the creation of a national insurance program to help people pay for long-term services and supports.

The Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) Act is at a critical time. Last week, the administration issued a letter saying that it did not "see a path forward" for implementing the CLASS Act.

Please call: 855-218-2109 (you will be patched to either the White House or Dept. of Health and Human Services where you can leave a message).

Urge the Administration to continue working on CLASS.

The problem of financial protection for Americans is not going away. America has to create a viable solution for people to pay for long-term services and supports they need. Giving up on a solution now after all the work that’s been done to this point would be foolish.

Without a solution, Medicaid continues as America’s default insurance, which isn’t sustainable. . . . America can and must do better!

Thank you for your advocacy in Changing Aging!

P.S. This editorial today from the Minneapolis Star Tribune illustrates why work on CLASS must continue. Also, here is the recent non-partisan Citizens League’s Journal, which includes an article from Ecumen and another from Minnesota’s Commissioner of Human Services Lucinda Jesson. This issue looks at ways to innovate in long-term care financing. Also, this NY Times article does a good job summing up the issue.