Tag: Medicaid

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…
Someone just asked me to give a talk on “entitlement reform.” I know reform is a good thing. And entitlement sounds bad. Merriam Webster’s online dictionary offers a definition: “a belief that one is deserving of or entitled to certain privileges.” Well, if greedy people out there are getting special stuff, we should fix it.&nbs…