Add community-based, long-term care to Medicare | lohud.com | The Journal News

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This is the year of change! President Obama won the presidential campaign, and we are anticipating major changes in health-care reform. I have been a nurse for 34 years, a nurse practitioner for 12. As I enter the realm of "baby boomer,'' I propose adding community-based, long-term care services to the Medicare program.

Medicare has existed since 1965, an automatic federal enrollment for those age 65 and older. The philosophy behind Medicare is to allow seniors to have access to health care without sending them into poverty. Yet long-term care is not covered under optional Part B of the plan; this omission shifts responsibility of such care for the approximately 10 million Americans to families…..

Add community-based, long-term care to Medicare | lohud.com | The Journal News