July 19, 2009
Easy to Push Through Longterm Healthcare If You Expect Most of Us to Be Dead Before We Get to That Point
No offense to Ted Kennedy, but…
Big damned deal. I can’t afford bloody health insurance — which pretty much guarantees I won’t be bloody well alive to need longterm home-health care. Cagey, this Congress, making themselves look like a bunch of humanitarians, while betting on the majority of us carking it before we’ll need it:
Finally, long-term home health care WITH LITTLE FANFARE, a new public program to help pay for long-term care for adults is moving through Congress. The premium is low and the coverage is good.
Largely geared to personal and health services provided in the home, though it extends to nursing home care as a last resort, the new coverage is built into the emerging formula for national healthcare reform. …
Yeah, I’m just in the mood tonight.
Posted by: Sapphocrat
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Filed Under: Health & Wellness, Insurance, U.S. Congress
