Long Term Care: The Public and Private Funding Debate Long term care is a growing need within the United States. Currently the U.S. population is 318.7 million with the older population comprising approximately 43.1 million in 2012. This amount is expected to jump to 88 million by 2050. Currently, 1 in every 7 or 13.7% to be exact, of the population is an older American. This amount increased by 24% between 2002 and 2012. This amount is projected
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Medicare is the United States' health insurance program for individuals age 65 or older. However certain people younger than age 65 can also qualify for Medicare, including those who are disabled, has permanent kidney failure or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, known as Lou Gehrig’s disease). The program helps with the cost of health care, but it does not cover all medical expenses or the cost of most long-term care. Many Medicare participants must also have supplemental health care coverage in order
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Kimberly Clark Professor Camille Castorina ECO 405-001 February 1, 2015 Social Security and Medicare are critical federal programs, in America, that promotes income stability among millions of households. Social Security does so by providing a steady stream of income to replace wages lost due to retirement, disability, or death. Medicare provided health benefits to the elderly and disabled. While both of these programs make sense, both are struggling to keep up with their growing demands.
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this country in addition to employer-based health insurance and Medicare. Medicaid delivers crucial medical related services to the most at risk populations in society. The importance of Medicaid's part in providing health insurance cannot be exaggerated; “the Medicaid program covers millions of low-income women, children, elderly people and individuals with disabilities” (U.S Department of Health and Human Services, 2000). Funding for Medicaid is limited through various federal policies, leaving
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Abstract The long-term debt of the United States is increasing to a first time thing and it is at the unmaintainable levels. The longer the United States will wait to put new policies in place, the more deficit reduction will be needed. The United States needs to establish a determined realistic goal and promise as a nation to achieve that certain goal. As my role of a legislature I need to find a way in order to stabilize the public debt to a 60% GDP. In order to come with a solution to stabilize
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targeted population? The targeted population is people suffering from mental illness and retardation. 3. How do you receive your funding? We receive most of our funding through grants and the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, but we also deal with Medicaid and Medicare reimbursements. 4. How do people pay for your services? Medicare or Medicaid 5. What services do you provide? The Potomac Highlands Guild provides counseling, therapy, and even residential housing
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to Wayne (2012), "Federal, state and local governments are projected to spend $2.4 trillion on health care in 2021, half of all U.S. medical expenditures, according to the analysis in Health Affairs by actuaries and economists from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Government accounted for about 46 percent of health spending through 2013” (Glide Path). This particular article shows monumental increase predicted for government funded health care in the near future. Speculation regarding
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our nation’s health care practices has shifted from supplying and meeting the medical needs of patients to the supply and demand of fee-for-service care. Our growing health care crisis is the results of medical organizations working with third party payers and private insurance sectors focusing more on the assets of funding instead of the quality of care for patients. As a result the rising cost of health care is continuously huge issue affecting our economy making it difficult for many Americans to
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program was created to address the poor and elderly uninsured population in the United State. This voluntary program is administered on a State level but regulated on a Federal level. The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is the organization that over sees the delivery, quality, funding, and eligibility of the program. Each individual State can choose how to operate the Medicaid itself. The program is design to help people with low income, children, parent of those children, pregnant
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the high costs are the high number of uninsured people in the U.S. who required treatment of illness and diseases that could have either been prevented or treated inexpensively in the early stages had they had insurance, rather than treatment of a crisis condition later on as it progressed to a more serious stage. The question on how health care should be structured has been debated many times for a long time now. There have been many studies, reports and initiatives that deal with this
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