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I’m deeply concerned that the American public, in particular our nation’s elders, will be relying on our government to deliver extended term care services they’ll never see. They’ll only see the “smoke and mirrors” of Overall health Care Reform.

Our nation’s seniors are the most vulnerable segment of the U.S. population vulnerable both health sensible and financially. They’re silently discovering the savings they believed would be enough is not sufficient. They’re silently fearful of operating out of revenue with no one particular to care for them as they grow to be more frail. The silence is about to come to be deafening.

Regrettably, when Overall health Care Reform proudly announced New Lengthy Term Care Solutions, it discouraged numerous American’s from getting Long Term Care Insurance coverage.

The New York Instances reported on ‘Options Expand for Economical Long-Term Care’ THE NEW OLD AGE. The Related Press announced ‘New Well being Care Law Has Added benefits for Seniors’. Point getting, the casual reader was relieved to hear their government will “take care of them” when they require long term care services. We now know that is not about to come about.

Thankfully our representatives in Washington found that Overall health Care Reforms answer to the trouble of Lengthy Term Care, “CLASS”, (Community Living Assistance Solutions and Supports Act) legislation would have been fiscally unsound. $70 billion in premiums that was anticipated to be raised for the new “lengthy term care” system would have been counted as “deficit reduction”. The long term care rewards it was intended to finance were assumed not to materialize in the initial 10 years. Nonetheless, that income was not accounted for anywhere in the legislation.

The new legislation proposed to “trim” $463 billion from Medicare. However Medicare is presently possessing trouble balancing its books currently. Yet, why does the overall health care bill tell us Medicare can operate additional cheaply going forward without the accompanying reforms?

Our national media gave enormous fanfare to the CLASS ACT when it passed. Regrettably the media has given the CLASS ACT’s demise small consideration. Now what?

Projections show that the federal deficit is anticipated to exceed $700 billion annually more than the next decade. This basically will double the national and $900 billion represents interest on previous debt. Would the CFO of any significant corporation in the United States enable the corporation he worked for to end up in this type of economic position? Completely not.

Our officials in Congress have been elected to guard the best interests of the American people. “Robbing Peter to spend Paul”, and once once more printing much more currency, has turn out to be our government’s mantra for the future. Yet the magnitude of the mismanagement of America’s purse strings has now reached an unconscionable state.

The United States of America can’t continue to mismanage its economic future. Future Congresses will have to provide a multitude of future reforms and, regrettably, history tells us THAT will never take place. Proposals for financing overall health reform were primarily based on extra “smoke and mirrors”. The “Cadillac” tax is scheduled to begin in 2018.

The health care legislation that has been forced on every and every one particular of us is recognized to be fiscally unsound. Where do we go from here? It really is as well effortless to point the finger at the President and his administration. Yet Congress owns the responsibility of passing Well being Care Legislation. And Alcohol Addiction is the trouble.

The 535 voting members of Congress shared the duty equally. If one clear considering, intelligent, honorable Congressman had the complete duty for Well being Care Reform, he or she would not have forced a fiscally unsound Overall health Care Reform Bill down our throats.

Now let’s once more evaluate how Health Care Reform will function against our senior citizens.

A most recent government report identified that in 2000 there had been 1.8 million out there nursing residence beds. As the year 2010 came to a close, there have been 1.7 million nursing residence beds a net five percent reduction in accessible beds. And, there are no new nursing residences becoming constructed.

Currently there’s less than 1.five million Americans confined to nursing homes. Reportedly ten % of these nursing houses are operating under bankruptcy protection. It is nicely identified that most of these facilities are understaffed and many don’t have competent help.

Next, let’s think about that the Alzheimer’s Association tells us the likelihood of developing Alzheimer’s soon after age 85 is 50 percent. By 2030, they inform us that the number of people age 65 and older with Alzheimer’s illness is estimated to attain 7.7 million, a 50 % improve from the five.two million age 65 and older at present affected.

The logical query I will have to ask is “if we cannot take adequate care of 1.5 million folks right now, how can we possibly take care of 7.7 million persons in 2030?” We can’t. Much more simply put, when you or your spouse or your parent has Alzheimer’s, there is no place for them to go. Not to be cruel, but if you ever feel for a moment about taking in an aged parent with Alzheimer’s into your house, please think once again. Ask any caregiver who’s been through it. It’s Assured to destroy any families’ peace of thoughts and harmony.

Why are not our political leaders actively working on solutions? Where’s the outcry? Regrettably our political leaders only align themselves with solvable problems.

America’s seniors became far more hopeful reading that Well being Reform will enable them with added Lengthy Term Care solutions. And we now know THAT is not going to come about. There are no plans in spot to aid our nation’s seniors assume they’ll acquire the comfort and dignity of sufficient lengthy term care solutions. What is worse is the silence shared by all our political leaders. The silence is now deafening.