Pitfalls Seen in a Turn to Privately Run Long-Term Care

Even as public attention is focused on the Affordable Care Act, anotherhealth care overhaul is underway in many states: an ambitious effort to restrain the ballooning Medicaid cost of long-term care as people live longer and survive more disabling conditions. At least 26 states, including California, Florida, Illinois and New York, are rolling out mandatory programs that put billions of public dollars into privately managed long-term care plans, in hopes of keeping people in their homes longer, and expanding alternatives to nursing homes. Read more.