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.
Run over by Reid's Reindeer
By John SullivanDisgusting, deceitful, sleazy, shameful ...use any adjective you like. Unfortunately, the most accurate is usual, as in "politics as usual." Seems Sen. Ben Nelson's principled...
December 28, 2009
Successfully prospecting to the wealthyIt's been said that selling long term care to rich people is actually quite easy -- it's finding them that's tough. Here are tips on building a wealthy clientele and what to do once you've got their attention.
December 21, 2009
ACLI: Study Shows CLASS Act Won't WorkThe American Council of Life Insurers is pointing to a new study by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services as confirming its view that a long term care entitlement program contained in the latest Senate health care reform package won't work.
December 20, 2009
ACLI: Study Shows CLASS Act Won't WorkThe American Council of Life Insurers is pointing to a new study by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services as confirming its view that a long term care entitlement program contained in the latest Senate health care reform package won't work.
December 20, 2009
MetLife study: Old age tops the chart why people need care65.7 million people, or 29 percent of the adult population of the United States, are caregivers.
December 20, 2009
Planning Or Wishful Thinking?One year ends, another begins. The wheel of history turns and a new opportunity presents itself. I have never been a big fan of New Year's resolutions, for I prefer specific plans over wishful expectations.
December 10, 2009
The rank (and file) smell of desperationTalk about a head scratcher. The plan now is to expand Medicare while at the same time gutting it (if such a thing is possible)....