States may also offer long-term services and supports to people living in the community but must first get federal permission.
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And it has the potential to serve as a critical source of funding for the cost of long-term care services and supports.
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The first repeals the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) Act.
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The Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) Act, the national long-term care insurance program included in the 2010 health reform law, is on life-support.
In the past few months, important events and circumstances have highlighted the need for an effective, sustainable way to finance the often-astronomical costs of long-term care services and supports.
Known as the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Act, or Class Act, this entitlement is in both the House and Senate bills and was a top priority of the late Sen.
An internal Obama administration e-mail recently leaked to the press appeared to reveal that officials would shut down a controversial component of the health reform law the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports, or CLASS Act.
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For a number of these organizations, CLASS was their principal motivation to support national health reform, and to them, health reform that did not address the need for long-term services and supports for persons with disabilities was not worthy of the name health reform.
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Under an agreement with the Obama Administration announced last week, the state will begin shifting both medical care and long-term supports and services to managed care companies in just seven months.
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Mobile products and services are creating an ecosystem that supports public institutions and helps entrepreneurs build new businesses.
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The foundation also helps build affordable housing and supports services for the homeless like shelters and food banks.
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Any future system should finance high-quality long-term supports and services that are well-integrated with medical care.
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Only about half of those who became Medicaid eligible had used any long-term supports and services.
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Most people who need supports and services want to get that care at home.
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The all-too-often reality: long-term supports and services for an 85-year old widow with dementia.
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The work force can barely meet the current need for care, supports and services, let alone what's to come.
Medicaid is the largest single payer of long-term supports and services, funding almost half of all paid long-term care.
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Medicaid provides long-term supports and services for seniors and people with disabilities, but only if they meet strict income and asset tests.
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In fact, the issue of long-term supports and services for the frail elderly and people with disabilities was almost entirely ignored by both parties.
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Slowly but surely, more people who receive Medicaid benefits for long-term supports and services are getting their care at home rather than in nursing facilities.
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The Workforce Investment Act (WIA) was first passed in 1998, and supports employment services and training programs serving millions of workers across the nation each year.
Still, if control and independence are really your goals, the last thing you want to do is rely on Medicaid for your long-term supports and services.
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Just getting a bipartisan commission of Congress to acknowledge the importance of the challenges facing those receiving long-term supports and services and their caregivers would be a huge step forward.
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Many of these programs depend on federal funding through the Workforce Investment Act, which supports employment services and training programs that serve millions of workers across the country each year.
The existing system for funding paid long-term supports and services is built on a wobbly three-legged stool: low private savings, an underfunded Medicaid program, and a hobbled private long-term care insurance market.
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