AARP Pushes Lawmakers To Improve Long-Term Care - Legislation Would Allow More Americans To Get Services At Home

As lawmakers return to Washington to tackle health care reform, AARP is pressing them to improve the country’s long-term care system as a part of comprehensive reform. Millions of older Americans rely on Medicaid for the long-term services and supports they need, but the program’s bias toward institutional care prevents most from getting more affordable care where they want it: their own homes.

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Filed under: Medicare / Medicaid / Tricare on June 5th, 2009