Financing Long-Term Health Care for the Elderly

Jane Gravelle and Jack Taylor

National Tax Journal, 1989, vol. 42, issue 3, 219-32

Abstract: Provides an overview of the long-term care insurance market and why this market may fail and reviews the current federal role in providing health care for the elderly. Discusses possible financing of a public program, along he lines of Medicare, and the distributional consequences of alternative tax bases.

Date: 1989
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