Tag: Medicaid
If we don’t want to cut programs, then we need big tax increases The U.S. fiscal challenge is pretty straightforward. Revenues in 2012 equal 16 percent of our nation’s output and spending (excluding interest) is 22 percent. Deficit spending makes sense in a weak economy, but even once the economy recovers revenues will fall short…
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…
