Commentary: Cash and Counseling in an international context

Health and long-term care policy in the United States is almost always carried out without knowledge of how other countries address similar problems. American public policy is the poorer for this ethnocentrism because other countries often have already implemented ideas which have only been proposed in the United States. To be sure, the cross-national differences in culture and the financing and organization of services do not allow for a simple transfer from one country to another, but the experiences of other countries can provide important insights.

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