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  2. Long-term care - Wikipedia

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    "Long-term services and supports" (LTSS) is the modernized term for community services, which may obtain health care financing (e.g., home and community-based Medicaid waiver services), [7] [8] and may or may not be operated by the traditional hospital-medical system (e.g., physicians, nurses, nurse's aides).

  3. Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services Waivers

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    Under an HCBS waiver, states can use Medicaid funds to provide a broad array of non-medical services (excluding room and board) not otherwise covered by Medicaid, if those services allow recipients to receive care in community and residential settings as an alternative to institutionalization.

  4. Long-term care insurance - Wikipedia

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    A welfare program, Medicaid does provide medically necessary services for people with limited resources who "need nursing home care but can stay at home with special community care services." [11] However, Medicaid generally does not cover long-term care provided in a home setting unless there is a state specific waiver program. In most states ...

  5. Who is eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid? - AOL

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    Health care expenses often increase as people age, due to more health challenges and care needs. According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, U.S. adults ages 65 and over each spent ...

  6. How the ‘Medicare Cliff’ is raising costs and worsening ...

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    The Medicare Cliff is a combination of the Affordable Care Act’s broadening of eligibility for Medicaid ... according to a new study by the National Council on Aging and the LeadingAge LTSS ...

  7. Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion Is Helping The Uninsured ...

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    It is jointly managed and financed by the federal government and the states. More than 70 million Americans are enrolled in Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program, a related benefit. Medicaid mainly covers children, pregnant women, some parents of poor kids, people with disabilities and elderly nursing home patients.

  8. Medicaid - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, Medicaid is a government program that provides health insurance for adults and children with limited income and resources. The program is partially funded and primarily managed by state governments, which also have wide latitude in determining eligibility and benefits, but the federal government sets baseline standards for state Medicaid programs and provides a ...

  9. Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion Slashed The Uninsured Rate ...

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    One of the 2010 law’s primary means to achieve that goal is expanding Medicaid eligibility to more people near the poverty level. But a crucial Supreme Court ruling in 2012 granted states the power to reject the Medicaid expansion, entrenching a two-tiered health care system in America, where the uninsured rate remains disproportionately high ...