Tag: long term care plan

Long term care insurance commission offers advice to Americans

H. Cutner
Long Term Care Insurance Industry

At the same time that they provided these recommendations, they didn’t offer advice for paying the premiums. The recommendations of a commission that was created by Congress in order to help to address the rapidly growing need for long term care insurance coverage have now been released with an important detail lacking from the advice. No consensus could be found regarding the way that these pricey services will be paid for. The proposals were an element of a bipartisan supported long term care insurance report from nine out of the…

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Life insurance often considered long term care coverage alternative in Maine

H. Cutner
Elderly selling their life insurance to get pay out

A new bill in the state could offer consumers a more affordable form of LTC coverage. Seniors living in Maine and who are reliant on the MaineCare program, which is currently strained for cash, may find that a new opportunity is opening up to help them to obtain long term care coverage – which is traditionally quite expensive – through life insurance policies, should lawmakers decide to pass a new bill. This bill does have a notable amount of support already and is currently under debate in the Legislature. The…

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