Elders in Poverty-A Policy Challenge for Professionals

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When policies on aging have received public attention during the past five or six years, the spotlight has largely focused on Social Security and Medicare. In the case of Social Security, the issues have been whether it's possible to maintain the traditional program for the aging baby boomers, or whether to privatize it. In the case of Medicare, attention has been given to adding prescription-drug coverage and providing program participants with vouchers they can use to shop for private health insurance. Way down the list, barely discernible, are reform measures to expand public financing of long-term care or encourage purchase of private long-term care insurance.

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