Tag: Medicaid

Doctor and patient are discussing diagnosis

The brief’s key findings are: Introduction What captures the headlines about Medicare is the exhaustion date of the Hospital Insurance (HI) trust fund. But HI is only 38 percent of Medicare expenditures today and is projected to decline further, and the HI shortfall – once the trust fund assets are depleted – is only 11 percent of…

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…