Can Medicare Be a Vehicle for Improving Coverage for Long-Term- Care Services and Supports?

Few issues have flummoxed policy makers more than how to address the need to improve coverage of long-term-care services and supports (LTSS). Two leading experts, Sheila Burke, adjunct lecturer and faculty research fellow at the Malcolm Weiner Center for Social Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Judith Feder, founding dean and professor at the Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy and Institute Fellow at the Urban Institute, both in Washington, D.C., provide their perspectives on the role Medicare can play.

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