Tag: healthcare
The brief’s key findings are: Long-term care is the major uninsured expense for most retirees. CLASS is a new, voluntary, national program designed to: alleviate the need for families to impoverish themselves to qualify for Medicaid; reduce the burden of care on families; and offset a bias towards institutionalization. The primary challenge to CLASS is…
Abstract Cash income offers an incomplete picture of the resources available to finance household consumption. Most American families are covered by an insurance plan that pays for some or all of the health care they consume. Only a comparatively small percentage of families pay for the full cost of this insurance out of their cas…
