Caring for Our Parents: Should Long-Term Care be Part of Health Reform?

Katharine Graham Conference Center, Urban Institute
2100 M St. N.W., Washington, D.C.
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
12:00 - 1:30 p.m. ET.
A light lunch will be served at 11:45 a.m. ET

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As many as 10 million older Americans and younger adults with disabilities require long-term care, either at home or in nursing facilities. The United States spends more than $200 billion annually for such care. However, our system for financing this assistance—principally Medicaid and family assets, with a small share funded through private insurance—may be untenable as baby boomers age. TPC’s Howard Gleckman looks at the way we deliver and pay for these services in a new book, Caring for Our Parents: Inspiring Stories of Families Seeking New Solutions to America's Most Urgent Health Crisis. He and a panel of top policy experts will discuss whether long-term care should be included in health reform legislation.

Panelists:
William Galston, senior fellow, Brookings Institution
Howard Gleckman, senior research associate, Tax Policy Center, Urban Institute
Richard Johnson, senior fellow, Urban Institute
Robert Rosenblatt, senior fellow, National Academy of Social Insurance (moderator)
Anne Tumlinson, vice president, Avalere Health