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Thinking beyond Reconciliation 2021
Let’s start familiarizing policymakers about more difficult, more fundamental reforms
The WISH Act: A Proposal for Federal LTSS Insurance for Catastrophic Costs
All members of ASA know that the United States has a wholly inadequate set of “arrangements” for supporting people who need long-term supports and services (LTSS), about half of whom are past retirement age. And they know the situation is on course to become dire within a decade, when so many in the Baby Boomer … Continue reading “The WISH Act: A Proposal for Federal LTSS Insurance for Catastrophic Costs”
Fragile Lives and COVID-19 Deaths in Nursing Homes
[Originally published on July 8, 2020] By Joanne Lynn, MD A colleague once sent me an obituary notice from a local paper in Arkansas which said, after noting that the 94-year-old woman had gone to live with Jesus, that she “had been troubled in her later years with heart problems and succumbed to the complications … Continue reading “Fragile Lives and COVID-19 Deaths in Nursing Homes”
Should Anyone Live in a Nursing Home?
[Originally published on July 13, 2020] By Joanne Lynn, MD Nursing homes are so widely shunned as being thoroughly undesirable that many advocates have proffered that they should be shuttered, and all care of disabled persons should be “in the community” and not in facilities. That refrain is growing with the obvious risks of COVID-19. I … Continue reading “Should Anyone Live in a Nursing Home?”
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About Dr. Lynn
Dr. Joanne Lynn (Twitter: @drjoannelynn) is a geriatrician, hospice physician, health services researcher, quality improvement advisor, and policy advocate who has focused upon shaping American health care so that every person can count on living comfortably and meaningfully through the period of serious illness and disability in the last years of life, at a sustainable cost to the community.
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