Abstract:Long-term care is a serious but largely unrecognized problem in the US. The CLASS Act was a new program embedded within the Affordable Care Act that was supposed to bring relief to disabled individuals and Medicaid, the primary payer for long-term care. However, the program had an unworkable design, and it was eventually abandoned by the Obama administration. CLASS' flaws were largely the product of a policy area in which ignorance and misinformation render any effective and fiscally sound program politically … Show more
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