This provision would have been first volunteer the United State's long-term public health insurance program, but was essentially closed and removed from the Affordable Care Act by the Obama administration after it was deemed "unworkable".
Key elements of the program included cash benefits to adults working with functional or cognitive limitations for use in the purchase of non-medical services and support necessary to maintain the community residence and payments for institutional care. Supporters of the CLASS Act hoped the program would offer advice on how to look after and pay for our aging population -. And now that the law has been rejected, the questions remain
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Enter the Commission on Long Term Care, a group of 15 members chosen by President, the majority and minority leaders in the Senate and the speaker and minority leader. This group is responsible for developing plans for a high-quality system to ensure long-term comprehensive care for adults and seniors in the nation with a disability.
Jesse Slome, executive director of the American Association for Long Term Care Insurance stresses that this is an issue that requires attention- otherwise he said, "we are stuck with what we have in affect the elderly who might need expensive care for 30 years, and persons with disabilities who may need care longer. "
The members have a tight deadline of six months to submit legislative or administrative recommendations to be introduced in Congress Skeptics are tired of what can actually be accomplished in six months. But lawyers are ready to fight to push the bill in the agenda of the nation.
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