TY  - JOUR
AU  - Brown,Jeffrey
AU  - Finkelstein,Amy
TI  - Insuring Long Term Care In the US
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 17451
PY  - 2011
Y2  - September 2011
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w17451
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w17451.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Jeffrey R. Brown
Department of Finance
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
515 East Gregory Drive
Champaign, IL 61820
Tel: 217/333-3322
E-Mail: brownjr@illinois.edu

Amy Finkelstein
Department of Economics
MIT E52-383B
50 Memorial Drive
Cambridge, MA 02142
Tel: 617/253-4149
Fax: 617/868-2742
E-Mail: afink@mit.edu
AB  - 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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