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Health Law and Policy

2012

Robert S Bloink

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Putting Boomers To Pasture: Does The 2010 Mippa Legislation Reinforce The Nursing Home Bias?, Robert S. Bloink Aug 2012

Putting Boomers To Pasture: Does The 2010 Mippa Legislation Reinforce The Nursing Home Bias?, Robert S. Bloink

Robert S Bloink

Unfunded health care expenses pose one of the greatest threats to the postretirement income security of seniors in America today. It is estimated that the average couple retiring in 2012 will require savings of approximately a quarter million dollars dedicated solely to their unfunded postretirement health care expenses, but this estimate does not factor in the expensive long-term care that most retirees will require toward the end of their lives. That the quarter-million dollar figure does not include the rapidly increasing cost of long-term care should alarm both retirees and those baby boomers approaching retirement age today. Controversial healthcare reform …


Putting Boomers To Pasture: Does The 2010 Mippa Legislation Reinforce The Nursing Home Bias?, Robert S. Bloink Aug 2012

Putting Boomers To Pasture: Does The 2010 Mippa Legislation Reinforce The Nursing Home Bias?, Robert S. Bloink

Robert S Bloink

Unfunded health care expenses pose one of the greatest threats to the postretirement income security of seniors in America today. It is estimated that the average couple retiring in 2012 will require savings of approximately a quarter million dollars dedicated solely to their unfunded postretirement health care expenses, but this estimate does not factor in the expensive long-term care that most retirees will require toward the end of their lives. That the quarter-million dollar figure does not include the rapidly increasing cost of long-term care should alarm both retirees and those baby boomers approaching retirement age today. Controversial healthcare reform …


Putting Boomers To Pasture: Does The 2010 Mippa Legislation Reinforce The Nursing Home Bias?, Robert S. Bloink Aug 2012

Putting Boomers To Pasture: Does The 2010 Mippa Legislation Reinforce The Nursing Home Bias?, Robert S. Bloink

Robert S Bloink

Unfunded health care expenses pose one of the greatest threats to the postretirement income security of seniors in America today. It is estimated that the average couple retiring in 2012 will require savings of approximately a quarter million dollars dedicated solely to their unfunded postretirement health care expenses, but this estimate does not factor in the expensive long-term care that most retirees will require toward the end of their lives. That the quarter-million dollar figure does not include the rapidly increasing cost of long-term care should alarm both retirees and those baby boomers approaching retirement age today. Controversial healthcare reform …