Despite polling consistently showing that voters are deeply concerned about medical care and its costs, neither Donald Trump nor Kamala Harris is offering a sweeping vision of health care reform.
I’ve heard multiple sources call this “huge” but to me it just sounds like “the building is on fire but we promised to try to use an eye dropper to put out no more than 1/15th of a square inch of the fire.”
Which would be huge. Right now Medicare doesn’t cover long-term care at all, and programs that do, push people into facilities that cost more per day than in-home care. And it’s a huge stress for the younger generations that get stuck taking care of their wrinklies. With the population lump getting older, this is becoming more important every year.
It hasn’t been a major talking point but Harris does want to expand Medicare to include home healthcare.
I’ve heard multiple sources call this “huge” but to me it just sounds like “the building is on fire but we promised to try to use an eye dropper to put out no more than 1/15th of a square inch of the fire.”
Which would be huge. Right now Medicare doesn’t cover long-term care at all, and programs that do, push people into facilities that cost more per day than in-home care. And it’s a huge stress for the younger generations that get stuck taking care of their wrinklies. With the population lump getting older, this is becoming more important every year.