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With a month to go before the 2024 presidential election, this week Democratic nominee Kamala Harris proposed expanding Medicare benefits to include long-term care and in-home health services.
Vice President Kamala Harris unveiled a plan Tuesday that would strengthen Medicare coverage to include long-term care for seniors in their homes, tackling one of the biggest challenges in U.S ...
“With one hand [Harris] proposes to increase Medicare long-term-care spending by $40 billion,” Cannon explained: “With the other hand, she proposes to cut $40 billion of Medicare drug ...
"Long-term care needs really start spiking in your 80s," McClanahan told me. "So long-term care is going to become a much, much bigger issue because the baby boomers are getting old quickly."
The summary of the National Health Care Act as proposed in the 111th Congress (2009–2010) includes the following elements, among others: [10] Expands the Medicare program to provide all individuals residing in the 50 states, Washington, D.C., and territories of the United States with tax-funded health care that includes all medically necessary care.
Under the Harris plan, Medicare would be required to cover the costs of long-term care offered in a family’s domestic setting; it would also add vision and hearing benefits for seniors.
Average Cost of Long-Term Care Insurance in 2024. Long-term care insurance costs vary significantly based on factors like age, gender, health, coverage, and location.
In December 2018, Harris was one of 42 senators to sign a letter to Trump administration officials Alex Azar, Seema Verma, and Steve Mnuchin arguing that the administration was improperly using Section 1332 of the Affordable Care Act to authorize states to "increase health care costs for millions of consumers, while weakening protections for ...