Stephen Moses, a man who has spent years fighting the rules that let relatively affluent people qualify for Medicaid nursing home benefits, got a chance today to explain his position to members of Congress.
Moses, president of the Center for Long-Term Care Reform, Seattle, spoke at a hearing on Medicaid planning organized by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee's health care subcommittee.
Moses, who served as inspector general of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in the 1980s, note that state rules for Medicaid – an insurance program for the poor funded by states and the federal government – encourage people to make complicated arrangement with assets to qualify for Medicaid nursing home benefits, rather than using annuities, private long term care (LTC) insurance or savings to pay for LTC services.
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Allison Bell
Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.
