Primary Education Topic:
Policy and Advocacy
Other Education Topics:
Healthcare & Aging
Leadership in Aging
Legal & Ethical Issues
These two programs combined have made good progress on increasing access to care and reducing health disparities, but work remains, especially in long-term-care coverage.
Medicare is a critical source of coverage for our nation’s older adults and for people with disabilities. Medicare provides health insurance protection and enables access to medical care for 54 million beneficiaries (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2015). However, the coverage Medicare provides comes with premium and cost-sharing requirements as well as gaps in covered benefits, especially for long-term services and supports (LTSS).