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.
Can Accountable-Care Organizations Improve Health Care While Reducing Costs? (Wall Street Journal)
By Staff WriterAccountable care organizations are being pitched as the next big thing in medical circles, a possible solution to skyrocketing administrative costs. But will they work?
January 23, 2012
Will They Go to the Doctor This Year?UnitedHealth executives see utilization rising; Fitch analysts believes spending may continue to slow.
January 20, 2012
LTCI Watch: Even Eskimos Loathed SenilicideIt's easy to be nonchalant about working-age adults, but the frail and disabled elderly are different.
January 20, 2012
LTCI Watch: Even Eskimos Loathed SenilicideIt's easy to be nonchalant about working-age adults, but the frail and disabled elderly are different.
January 20, 2012
National Underwriter Company Publishes LTC GuideJeff Sadler, CLTC, covers partnership programs, PPACA, and strategies for reaching both the individual and group markets.
January 19, 2012
Doctors vs. Obamacare: Can Your Physician Simply ‘Opt-Out’? (Washington Times)The destruction of quality in the American medical system will not result from one isolated event.
January 19, 2012
Lawmakers Get Emotional About CLASSHouse Ways and Means Committee members wondered at a routine markup why they can't build bridges.
January 19, 2012
Murray Gordon: If I Had A Magic WandAn advisor who's been in LTC planning since 1975 shares part of his wish list for the industry.