Maine--Long-Term Care [1 of 4]: Maine, NH Patients Waiting LTC Placement

Material in this series was generated from 1986 through 1994. Materials include notes, memos, correspondence, reports, testimony from hearings, press clippings, and journal articles. Subjects addressed are: causes for the high rate of cost increases; problems in the delivery of long-term health care services; the role of prevention in lowering health care costs; plans for consolidating resources for efficiency; development of eligibility criteria for benefit recipients; and philosophical differences in approaches to solving the problems. The primary problem in long-term care remains the coverage of enormous and impoverishing costs of this care. Various health care proposals are discussed in these records: the Pepper-Roybal proposal of 1988, which presented a plan for covering long-term home care costs; the Mitchell plan of 1988, which advocated extending Medicare to cover long-term home care and long-term nursing home care costs; the Catastrophic Coverage bill (passed in 1987 and repealed in 1989); the "HealthAmerica" plan of 1991, which would have provided a national board to oversee health care; President Clinton's 1994 Health-Care Reform initiative, centered on guaranteeing access to health care for all Americans; and others. Christine Williams maintained most of the files in this series. Robert Crittendon created some files. Some long-term care files can be found in the Health Care Budgets series.