Resident fellow at the Urban Institute, is author of "Caring For Our Parents" and a frequent writer and speaker on long-term care issues.
Critics of the CLASS Act argue that $75-a-day is insufficient. But a new study shows that millions could benefit.
Dec 14, 2009
Pay attention to the CLASS Act. It can not only provide better long-term care for those who so desperately need this assistance, it can also become a new way to help those in need in an era of $1 trillion-plus budget deficits. But only if it is done right.
Nov 30, 2009
A key question about the CLASS Act remains: How many will buy the coverage even if it is broadly available?
Nov 16, 2009
We’ll never keep everyone at home. But if we work at it, we can postpone the transition for months or even years.
Oct 26, 2009
We are not ready for healthy retirement, and we are desperately unprepared for the costly medical and long-term care we are likely to need in old age.
Oct 12, 2009
In not too many years, long-term care nursing home beds may be as rare as Republicans in Massachusetts.
Sep 28, 2009
The real challenge for long-term care reform remains indifference, rather than outright opposition.
Sep 14, 2009
In truth, seniors are likely to big winners if responsible health reform passes and prime victims if it fails.
Aug 31, 2009
We live in a time when seemingly no subject is taboo. Yet, there remains one subject Americans seem unable to talk about in an honest and rational way: the inevitable decline of old age.
Aug 14, 2009
While states and the federal government struggle to update Medicaid though a maze of waiver programs and patches to an increasingly outdated law, their efforts are a little like trying to add disc breaks and electronic ignition to a 1965 Plymouth. It is, in the end, still a 1965 Plymouth.
Aug 03, 2009