Tag: long-term care

Nurse taking care of mature patient in front of window

Abstract Immigrants residing among many people who share their ethnic background are especially likely to receive Supplemental Security Income (SSI) for a disability when they belong to high SSI take-up immigrant groups. After showing that this relationship cannot be fully explained by differences in health, we consider the likely sources of these network effects by…

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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…