Archive: Nadia Greenhalgh-Stanley
Abstract While the private long-term care insurance market has remained small, an important trend in the United States has been the increased dependence on Medicaid to provide long-term care services for the elderly. As a result, the government has attempted to develop laws that would incentivize the purchase of private long-term care insurance policies, in…
Abstract We provide empirical evidence on the extent to which long-term care insurance affects the housing and living arrangements of the elderly by examining plausibly exogenous changes in the supply of long-term care insurance through the Medicare program that occurred in the late 1990s. Prior to 1997, Medicare reimbursed home health care agencies on a…
