Tag: Medicaid

Home care nurse helping a patient

My fascinating conversation with Ben Veghte, executive director of the Washington Cares Fund, covered both his state’s innovative model for public financing of long-term care and the Dutch approach to senior care. The Washington Cares Fund The Washington Cares Fund is a unique long-term care financing model that – starting in July 2026 – will provide state residents with up to…

Miniature workers on different height coin stacks

Getting people to work probably isn’t the point. As a rule, I don’t trust any piece of major legislation whose title contains literally no information on its contents. So, when I saw that Republicans in the House of Representatives had passed something called the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” I was suspicious. I mean, giv…