Long-Term Care Planning
Long-term care insurance news and analysis, including coverage of short-term care insurance, long-term care hybrid products, and other arrangements for paying for long-term and post-acute care.
LTC bits: Producers and surveys
By Allison BellA carrier adds a chronic care rider, boomer misconceptions, and the GenX LTC vacuum.
January 17, 2014
Alzheimer's R&D funding should double, witness saysIf dementia were a country's GDP, that country would be a rich country.
January 16, 2014
ER care quality declinesWith PPACA bearing down on them, a doctors group said emergency rooms are less able to provide quality care than three years ago.
January 13, 2014
Medicaid to go after the home care marketThe program will try to break away from its focus on nursing home benefits.
January 13, 2014
Millionaires on MedicaidExpanding Medicaid coverage to an estimated nine million more Americans reinforces the idea that Medicaid only serves the poor. That perception is not accurate.
January 08, 2014
Why has LTD done better than LTCI?An analyst says regulatory flexibility has helped stabilize the disability market.
January 03, 2014
California bill could promote partnership programA state assembly panel has scheduled a hearing on A.B. 1234 for Jan. 8.