Financing Long-Term Care: Public vs. Private Solutions

The U.S. has no comprehensive system to pay for long-term care, leaving many families to exhaust their savings or leave the workforce to care for aging loved ones. Policy solutions range from expanding public programs to stabilizing the private insurance market, or combining both approaches, as recent bipartisan efforts propose. Yet past policy chapters highlight just how challenging–and costly–this issue remains. This seminar will bring together experts to examine the policy options and political landscape shaping the future of long-term care—and explore what it will take to build a sustainable system to care for aging Americans.

Supported by the Charles C. Leighton, MD Memorial Fund.

Speakers

Richard G. Frank, PhD

Director, Center on Health Policy and Senior Fellow in Economic Studies, The Brookings Institution

Narda Ipakchi, MBA

Vice President, Policy and Programs, The SCAN Foundation

R. Tamara Konetzka, PhD

Louis Block Professor of Public Health Sciences and Professor, Medicine, The University of Chicago

Rachel M. Werner, MD, PhD (moderator)

Executive Director, Penn LDI; Robert D. Eilers Memorial – William Maul Measey Professorship in Health Care Management and Economics, Wharton School; Professor, Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine