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Today U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging Chairman Herb Kohl (D-WI) held a hearing to call for the inclusion of improvements to long-term care services and supports as part of emerging blueprints for national health reform. A member of the Obama Administration from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) offered testimony as the Committee considers how to improve the country's current scattered system of long-term care services and supports, while also working to ensure that they are cost-effective. In recent years, Medicaid payments have shifted from primarily funding nursing home care, to funding more home and community-based care for older and disabled Americans. Witnesses called for targeted changes to Medicare and Medicaid, as well as broader changes in the context of national health care reform discussions....
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Today U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging Chairman Herb Kohl (D-WI) held a hearing to call for the inclusion of improvements to long-term care services and supports as part of emerging blueprints for national health reform. A member of the Obama Administration from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) offered testimony as the Committee considers how to improve the country's current scattered system of long-term care services and supports, while also working to ensure that they are cost-effective. In recent years, Medicaid payments have shifted from primarily funding nursing home care, to funding more home and community-based care for older and disabled Americans. Witnesses called for targeted changes to Medicare and Medicaid, as well as broader changes in the context of national health care reform discussions....
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