| 来源类型 | Article
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| 规范类型 | 评论
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| Congress’s Long-Term Care Bomb |
| Scott Harrington
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| 发表日期 | 2009-12-14
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| 出版年 | 2009
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | The public is growing wary of the cost of ObamaCare. Yet there is one budget-busting provision that hasn’t received the attention it deserves: a new long-term care entitlement.
Known as the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Act, or Class Act, this entitlement is in both the House and Senate bills and was a top priority of the late Sen. Ted Kennedy. It would provide at least $50 a day toward home or institutional care, equipment and supplies, or home improvements to assist the daily living of those who are enrolled. It is also a significant part of the reason that Democrats claim that ObamaCare is fiscally responsible, but this turns out to be a short-term budget ruse.
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that the House and Senate health-care bills will reduce federal deficits over the next 10 years by $138 billion and $130 billion, respectively. The lion’s share of the savings, $101.6 billion and $72.5 billion, would be realized by the long-term care program.
Click here to read the entire article in the Wall Street Journal.
Scott Harrington is an adjunct scholar at AEI. |
| 主题 | Health Care
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| 标签 | bombing
; Congress
; Harrington
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| URL | https://www.aei.org/articles/congresss-long-term-care-bomb/
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| 来源智库 | American Enterprise Institute (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/248360
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