Long-Term Care Financing Reform Has a Big Day

  • It’s a long way from passage, but long-term care financing reform is gaining momentum . . .Yesterday President Barack Obama publicly backed efforts to create a new government program to provide long term care insurance as part of the broader health care overhaul.  Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said in a letter to Sen. Ted Kennedy, who is chief author of the CLASS Act, that the administration supports the program because it would help elderly and disabled people stay in their own homes.
  • Ecumen supports the CLASS Act and long-term care financing reform.  Kathryn Roberts opined yesterday in the Minneapolis Star Tribune on the issue.