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A key issue in the debate about reforming the US health care system is how to finance and organize the delivery of long-term care. This volume offers perspectives on several important facets of this problem, including the regulation of private long-term care insurance, catastrophic out-of-pocket costs, and the use of long-term care and acute care services by the chronically disabled elderly.

(Paperback)

This work examines the wide range of financing approaches to reforming long-term care of the disabled elderly and the impacts they would have over the next 25 years.