Insuring Long Term Care In the USJeffrey Brown, Amy Finkelstein
NBER Working Paper No. 17451 Long-term care expenditures constitute one of the largest uninsured financial risks facing the elderly in the United States. This paper provides an overview of the economic and policy issues surrounding insuring long-term care expenditure risk. Through this lens we also discuss the likely impact of recent long-term care public policy initiatives at both the state and federal level.
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