Long Term Care The Preventable Tragedy |
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| Author:
| Moses, Stephen |
| ISBN: | 978-1-930865-95-2 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2006 |
| Publisher: | Cato Institute
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | Contact Supplier contact
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Book Description:
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We may all need a nursing home one day. This book is the first comprehensive analysis of long-term care service, delivery, and financing from a market-based perspective. It traces the history of Long Term Care (LTC) from 1965 until today and explains how public financing of nursing home care crowded out private LTC financing at all levels. It also describes politically feasible reforms that would remove the current system's perverse incentives and solve the challenge of providing LTC...
More DescriptionWe may all need a nursing home one day. This book is the first comprehensive analysis of long-term care service, delivery, and financing from a market-based perspective. It traces the history of Long Term Care (LTC) from 1965 until today and explains how public financing of nursing home care crowded out private LTC financing at all levels. It also describes politically feasible reforms that would remove the current system's perverse incentives and solve the challenge of providing LTC to America's rapidly aging population.