Who will pay for long term care? : insights from the Partnership programs / edited by Nelda McCall.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McCall, Nelda.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Long-term care of the sick--Finance.

Long-term care of the sick.

Long-term care insurance--Finance.

Long-term care insurance.

Physical Description:

xvii, 333 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Health Administration Press ; Washington, DC : Academy for Health Services Research and Health Policy, [2001]

Contents:

Part 1 Background On Long Term Care And The Partnership

1. Long Term Care: Definition, Demand, Cost, and Financing / Nelda McCall 3

2. Historical Perspective on the Theory Behind the Partnership / Jeffrey C. Merrill 33

Part 2 Implementing The Partnership: Perspectives Of The Participants

3. National Program Office / Mark R. Meiners, Hunter McKay, Steven Goss 49

4. The States / Kevin J. Mahoney, David Guttchen, Dail Phillips, Sandra Pierce-Miller, Mary Ann Hack, Gregory J. Belardi 65

5. Insurers / Barbara R. Stucki 97

6. Agents / Pamela Turner, Phyllis Shelton, Thomas Orr 113

7. Consumers / Bonnie Burns 125

Part 3 Partnership Evaluation Findings

8. What Have We Learned from the Partnership for Long Term Care? / Nelda McCall, Jodi Korb 149

9. The Partnership for Long Term Care: The Road Ahead / Marc A. Cohen 187

10. The Long Term Care Partnership Program: Why It Failed and How to Fix It / Stephen A. Moses 207

11. Pricing and Promises: Limitations in Long Term Care Partnership Policies / Gordon Trapnell, Elizabeth M. Peppe 223

12. The Limits of the Partnership for Long Term Care / Joshua M. Wiener 243

Part 5 Viewpoints From The Hill

13. Long Term Care Insurance: Sooner Rather than Later / James Cantwell 263

14. Financing Long Term Care: Priorities for Targeting Public Resources / Judith Feder, Harriet L. Komisar, Marlene R. Niefeld 273

Part 6 Viewpoints From Partnership Insiders

15. The Role of Large Foundations: To Foster Innovation / Stephen A. Somers 283

16. Reflections of a Partnership Insider on Long Term Care Financing / Mark R. Meiners 289

17. Where Do We Go from Here? / Nelda McCall 303.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1567931537

OCLC:

46660573