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Lawmakers revive long-term care trust proposal to fund home- and community-based services
Summary
The House Committee on Human Services discussed a short-form proposal to create a long-term care trust to finance long-term care services through a dedicated payroll-funded mechanism.
The House Committee on Human Services reviewed a short-form proposal to establish a long-term care trust meant to create a dedicated funding stream for nursing-home care and home- and community-based services.
The sponsor described the trust as a way to build money over time so individuals have access to long-term care without relying solely on emergency state bailouts or high Medicaid expenditures. "This is not my idea. This has been in this building since the…
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