Catastrophic Insurance: How the Bowen Plan Fails : Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Health and Long-Term Care of the Select Committee on Aging, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, First Session, February 17, 1987, Volume 4 |
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acute hospital acute medical adults having CF adverse selection Alzheimer's Alzheimer's disease American Hospital Association average benefits bill BORSKI BOWEN PLAN Bowen proposal CAMPION catastrophic coverage catastrophic health insurance catastrophic illness Chairman CLAUDE PEPPER Congress copayments costs of long-term covered day health center disease dollars elders eligible expenses Federal frail elderly funds going GREENLICK health insurance health services hearing HMOs home health HUNTER incentives income individual insurance companies insurance coverage insurance policies Kaiser Permanente KANE live Lok's long-term care insurance Loshuk managed Medicaid Medicare Medicare and Medicaid Medicare coverage Medicare's medigap million month MORELLA mother nursing home older Americans panel participants patient PEPPER percent population premium President private insurance problem protection risk pool savings Schaefer Seniors SHMO SHY-DRAGER SYNDROME Social Security STATEMENT term Thank uninsured VENTO WARFIELD Zacharias
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Page 4 - ...THE 83-YEAR-OLD GENTLEMAN FROM MAINE WHO WROTE ME STATING 'HERE I SIT THE LONELIEST MAN THAT EVER LIVED. I HAVE ADMITTED MY WIFE, OF 55 YEARS, TO A NURSING HOME. SHE HAS ALZHEIMER'S AND I AM CAUGHT BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE. I CAN NO LONGER PROVIDE THE ROUND THE CLOCK CARE SHE REQUIRES AND I WILL SCON BE UNABLE TO PAY THE COSTS OF
Page 102 - The Honorable Claude Pepper Chairman Subcommittee on Health and Long-term Care Select Committee on Aging US House of
Page 2 - here I sit, the loneliest man that ever lived. I have admitted my wife of 55 years to a nursing home. She has Alzheimer's and I am caught between a rock and a hard place. I can no longer provide the round-the-clock care she requires and I will soon be unable to pay the costs of the care she now gets, which have exhausted our $160,000 in savings.
Page 23 - Dr. KANE. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. My name is Robert Kane. I am the Dean of the School of Public Health at the
Page 29 - of the Society for Hospital Social Work Directors of the American Hospital Association on
Page 27 - costs; even more inadequate public and private coverage of long-term care costs; and the presence of
Page 4 - BE UNABLE TO PAY THE COSTS OF THE CARE SHE NOW GETS WHICH HAVE EXHAUSTED OUR $160,000 IN LIFE SAVINGS.
Page 72 - Thank you very much. [Whereupon, at 12:35 pm, the hearing was adjourned.] APPENDIX
Page 23 - the Dean of the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota. I am
Page 41 - patients at Massachusetts General Hospital. Last year only 17 patients out of over 33,000 would have qualified. By contrast, nearly 2,000 patients were discharged to rehabilitation and chronic hospitals and to nursing homes where medicare support soon vanishes and the slide toward