Stephen Moses is president of the Center for Long-Term Care Reform, Inc., a private institute dedicated to ensuring quality long-term care for all Americans by promoting public policy that targets scarce public resources to the neediest, while encouraging people who are young, healthy and affluent enough, to take responsibility for themselves.
The Center’s efforts expand upon Moses’ seminal research as a senior analyst for the Health Care Financing Administration and for the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Through frequent speeches to national audiences, hard-hitting reports, and its popular "LTC Bullets" on-line newsletter, the Center for LTC Financing quickly became the preeminent advocate for a rational and financially viable long-term care financing system.
Thursday, November 13, 2008Save More, Expect LessBy Stephen MosesFiled As: Health CareAt the rate we're going, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid will consume almost the entire federal budget by 2050, says About.com. That's the LTC irony. The more we spend now while most boomers are still working in the productive economy and paying taxes, the faster we'll run out of ... more »»
|
Monday, June 30, 2008New Videos on Long-Term CareBy Stephen MosesFiled As: Health CareTwo new short videos about the financial problems associated with financing long-term care (LTC) are now available from the LTC Consciousness Tour Channel on YouTube. Check out the brief conversations on critical topics with more »»
|
Monday, June 2, 2008Medicaid and Home-Based CareBy Stephen MosesFiled As: Health CareThe federal law known as the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 opened more opportunities for states to shift from institutional care to home and community-based and consumer-driven care. What's happened since its implementation? A more »»
|
Friday, May 30, 2008Medicaid and Crowding Out of Long-Term Care InsuranceBy Stephen MosesFiled As: Health CareA recent publication on long-term care (page down for citation) demonstrates a common misrepresentation of the analysis of the problems of long-term care I put forth in Aging America’s Achilles Heel: Medicaid Long-Term Care, which was published by ... more »»
|
Wednesday, August 8, 2007Poor Subsidize the RichMedicaid match favors wealthiest states Filed As: Health CareWhile the federal matching formula for Medicaid is meant to assist less-prosperous states, it actually results in subsidizing the expansive programs of the wealthiest states. For example, while Kansas has a higher federal matching ratio than New York, New York gets twice as much per poor person as does ... more »»
|
Friday, March 9, 2007Do Health Care Partnerships Work?Filed As: Health CarePeople often ask me how they can help promote adoption of a Long-Term Care Partnership program in their state. On February 20, Ralph Leisle, member of the Center for Long-Term Care Reform, Inc., took the ... more »»
|