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.
Hospitals are vanishing and undoing the ACA may make it worse
By John LauermanWall Street believes health law repeal will hurt facilities' earnings and cause some to shut down.
January 10, 2017
UnitedHealth branches out with $2.3 billion surgical care dealThe U.S.s biggest health insurer, UnitedHealth Group Inc., will buy Surgical Care Affiliates Inc. for about $2.3 billion.
January 10, 2017
When new and improved actually isn’tHow can something be both "new" and "improved"? It can't.
January 10, 2017
Bad long-term care cost potatoWe have to cure more, tax more, save more, borrow more, insure more or ration more.
January 06, 2017
All-in-one Medicare plans may open to younger peopleComments on the idea of expanding access to PACE coverage are due Feb. 10.
January 06, 2017
All-in-one Medicare plans may open to younger peopleComments on the idea of expanding access to PACE coverage are due Feb. 10.
January 05, 2017
Here's What's Going to Happen in 2017Predictions from the Yale law professor and novelist on everything from the CFPB's legal challenges to bitcoin to the Affordable Care Act.
January 05, 2017
Regulator calls for a long-term care planning shiftTeresa Miller says consumers must rely more on savings and less on insurance.