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Informationen zum Autor Edward Alan Miller! Ph.D.! M.P.A.! is an Associate Professor of Gerontology & Public Policy and Fellow of the Gerontologist Institute at the McCormack Graduate School for Policy & Global Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston! USA. He is also Adjunct Associate Professor of Health Services! Policy & Practice! at Brown University! USA. His research focuses on understanding the determinants and effects of federal and state policies affecting vulnerable populations. Previous publications include Digital Medicine: Health Care in the Internet Era (2009). Klappentext The policy debate leading up to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) drew attention to prevailing deficiencies in the way long-term care is delivered! regulated! and financed in the United States. This collection reviews what was accomplished by the legislation and what still remains to be done. Zusammenfassung This book considers the impact of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) that drew attention to prevailing deficiencies in the way long-term care is delivered, regulated, and financed in the United States. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Aging & Social Policy. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: The Affordable Care Act and Long-Term Care: Comprehensive Reform or Just Tinkering Around the Edges? Edward Alan Miller 2. The CLASS Act: Is It Dead or Just Sleeping? Joshua M. Wiener 3. A 10-Foot Rope for a 50-Yard Drop: The CLASS Act in the a Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act William G. Weissert 4. Partnership Long-Term Care Insurance: Lessons for CLASS Program Development Mark R. Meiners 5. Medicaid Home- an d Community-Based Services: Impact of the Affordable Care Act Charlene Harrington, Terence Ng, Mitchell LaPlante and H. Stephen Kaye 6. Impact of Health Care Reform on the Workforce Caring for Older Adults Robyn I. Stone and Natasha Bryant 7. Nursing Homes and the Affordable Care Act: A Cease Fire in the Ongoing Struggle Over Quality Catherine Hawes, Darcy M. Moudouni, Rachel B. Edwards, Charles D. Phillips 8. Care Coordination for Dually Eligible Medicare-Medicaid Beneficiaries under the Affordable Care Act David Grabowski 9. Medicare and the Affordable Care Act Marilyn Moon 10. Conclusion ...
