LTC Bullet: CLTCR News: Thousand Bullets Retrospective
Friday,
June 12, 2015
Seattle—
LTC Comment: Your
Center for Long-Term Care Reform continues to celebrate its publication of
over 1,000 LTC Bullets with this overview of 18 years of “CLTCR
News” Bullets. Please enjoy this retrospective after the ***news.***
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LTC BULLET:
CLTCR News: THOUSAND BULLETS RETROSPECTIVE
LTC Comment: Once a week, usually on Fridays, we publish our latest
LTC Bullet. The Bullets are often policy pieces, sort of like
op-eds. You can always find the latest Bullets
here and archives of the rest of the 1,000+ Bullets (so far),
by date
here and by topic
here. These 1,000+ articles are a valuable historical resource.
Please make use of them. Search for key terms using Control-F on your
keyboard.
This series is a retrospective of the most interesting and dramatic LTC
Bullets that we’ve published since the Center’s founding in 1998.
We’ll highlight one Bullet per year in each of seven major topics:
“The LTC Problem and Solutions”; “Reality Check: The Facts on LTCI”;
“Medicaid Planning”; “LTC Services”; “Politics and Legislation”;
“Demographics and Other Data”; and “CLTCR News.”
Today’s Bullet is our “Thousand Bullets Retrospective” Number 7
covering “CLTCR News.” These “CLTCR News” Bullets cover what’s
happened at the Center since 1998, including press coverage and releases.
Read our summary and check out the original at the link provided. Enjoy
this walk down memory lane.
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May 15, 1998:
Center for Long-Term Care Financing Established.
“Stephen Moses and David Rosenfeld have
established the Center for Long-Term Care Financing. The Center's mission
is to promote universal access to top-quality long-term care by
encouraging private financing and discouraging welfare financing of
long-term care for most Americans.”
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November 24, 1999:
You are the Wind in our Sails. “Last September 17, we published an
LTC Bullet entitled "How Are We Doing?" We asked you to comment on the
Center for Long-Term Care Financing's publications, web page, and public
policy initiatives. We needed your endorsements to prove to current and
potential financial supporters that you--the front line troops in the
battle to save long-term care--find value in our work products.
“Here's a taste of the feedback we received from reporters, publishers,
advocates, agents, brokers, LTC providers, public officials and others:”
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October 13, 2000:
The LTC Triathlon. “Once a year, The Center for Long-Term Care
Financing conducts a major research project. We call this year's project
‘The LTC Triathlon.’ That metaphor refers to the fact that America is in a
race for survival to develop a long-term care service delivery and
financing system that actually works before the baby boomer generation
needs one. Center staff interviewed 119 of the leading financiers (lenders
and investors), providers (home care, assisted living, and nursing homes)
and insurers (agents, brokers and carriers) of long-term care in the
United States. Our objective was to learn (1) what these key players know
about each other's businesses, (2) how they account for the current
malaise in long-term care service delivery and financing, and (3) what
they think ought to be done to improve the situation. We have collected
some dynamite material including many ‘colorful’ quotes. The report is
circulating in draft for review by the study's respondents. We plan to
publish it in final early in December, at which time copies will be
available for purchase. In the meantime, here's an article by Center
President Stephen Moses published in the September 2000 issue of
Contemporary Long-Term Care magazine, a leading provider trade
journal. The article will give you a good idea of where the Center for
Long-Term Care Financing is going with our LTC Triathlon project.”
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March 12, 2001:
Center President Tackles New Constellation of LTC Issues. “Center for
LTC Financing President Stephen Moses addressed the ticklish subject of
‘Long-Term Care Due Diligence for Professional Financial Advisers’ on
national conference calls February 14 and February 28, 2001. The audience
was primarily attorneys, accountants and financial planners for high
net-worth individuals. Steve's advice in a nutshell: you have a fiduciary
responsibility to your clients (1) to apprise them of the long-term care
risk, (2) to propose responsible financial planning solutions, and (3) to
warn them about the dubious practice of ‘Medicaid estate planning.’”
October 12, 2001:
Tribute to George Sherman. “On September 28, we sadly announced the
passing of a good friend and colleague, George Sherman. In the meantime,
dozens of you responded to our invitation to share your thoughts and
anecdotes about George. We have compiled your stories and added some
information about Sherm's life and the circumstances of his death. You
will find this information at
http://www.centerltc.com/GeorgeSherman.htm. Thank you for a wonderful
outpouring of affection, admiration, appreciation and respect for this
unique man who touched so many of our lives.”
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August 1, 2002:
What Have You Done for Me Lately?. “Around this time every year, we
give LTC Bullets readers a report on what the Center for Long-Term Care
Financing has done for you during the past year. We solicit your comments,
criticism and questions. We also invite your endorsements and testimonials
if you think we've earned them. We do this is preparation for the Center's
2002-2003 fundraising campaign that begins this month.”
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May 15, 2003:
Open Letter to Governors on Medicaid and LTC. “State budgets are
hurting. Medicaid, America's LTC safety net, is suffering. Huge cuts in
eligibility and services already underway or under consideration will hurt
the poor first and most, but formerly prosperous recipients who qualified
through Medicaid planning will feel the pain too. We think there is a
better way. Instead of taking a meat-axe to their home and community based
waivers and other Medicaid LTC services, states can target Medicaid more
effectively to the genuinely needy, encourage reliance on private
financing sources such as home equity conversion, and use part of the
savings to encourage the purchase of private LTC insurance with state tax
credits and deductions. We estimate states can save at least five percent
of their Medicaid nursing home budgets in the short run and twenty percent
or more over time by implementing thoughtful reforms. The Center for
Long-Term Care Financing recently sent the following letter to all State
Governors (and Lt. Governors, Medicaid directors, and AHCA, AAHSA, and
ALFA State affiliates) offering to help assess the problem and propose
solutions. LTC Bullets readers who would like to see our LTC Choice
http://www.centerltc.com/pubs/CLTCFReport.pdf or Magic Bullet
http://www.centerltc.com/pubs/MAGIC_Bullet.pdf recommendations
implemented are encouraged to forward this issue of LTC Bullets to your
Governors, state legislators, Medicaid administrators, and local media.
Invite them to check out the Center for Long-Term Care Financing at
http://www.centerltc.org/ and to contact” us at 206-283-7036 or
info@centerltc.com.
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March 17, 2004:
Center Announces Special LTC Project. “The Council for Affordable
Health Insurance (CAHI), a highly respected think tank and public policy
organization in Washington, DC, solicited and accepted the following
project proposal from the Center for Long-Term Care Financing. The Center
will rank and critique states on their LTCi market penetration, their
ability to control Medicaid LTC eligibility, and their success in Medicaid
estate recovery, as well as other related issues. The timing and potential
for this project are great because of the Medicaid-LTC driven fiscal
crisis in the states. We hope to awaken legislators and policy-makers to
the enormous potential of controlling Medicaid expenditures and preserving
Medicaid for the needy by diverting more people to LTCi and home equity
conversion. CAHI and the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) will
produce our report, distribute it to key state legislators and the media,
and promote the findings.” Editor’s note: Access the finished product
here:
The Realist's Guide to Medicaid and Long-Term Care.
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May 3, 2005:
The Center is Dead . . . Long Live the Center. “Yesterday, we made
the following announcement to Center donors: ‘The Center for Long-Term
Care Financing ceased to exist on Friday, April 30.’ We hastened to add,
however, that the work and the mission of the Center will continue. Here's
what's happening:”
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May 25, 2006:
Center and Friends in the Press. “So far this year, I've done
twelve media interviews and the Center for Long-Term Care Reform has been
quoted and cited in ten articles that we know about. Publications that
have covered our message include the Wall Street Journal, the
Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the Dallas Morning
News, Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine, McKnight's
Long-Term Care News, Assisted Living Executive, and several
others. When you have a small budget but a big message, nothing helps
more than a national media megaphone. Today, we highlight three recent
articles that cite the Center for Long-Term Care Reform and help convey
our message. Citations and excerpts follow.”
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January 18, 2007:
The Almanac of Long-Term Care. “After being barraged for decades with
urgent questions like these from friends, colleagues, readers, Center
members, public officials, legislators, reporters and so on and on and on,
I decided to prepare an ‘Almanac of Long-Term Care.’ Our new
Almanac is a reference source that makes finding the LTC information
you want quick and easy. I needed it for myself and I'll use it as much
as anyone will.
“If you're a member of the Center for Long-Term Care Reform, you can
access our new Almanac of Long-Term Care today at
http://www.centerltc.com/members/LTC_ALMANAC/Main.htm. You'll need
your user name and password. If you don't have them handy, contact Damon
at 206-283-7036 or
damon@centerltc.com.”
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December 17, 2008:
What Have You Done for Me Lately?. “Thanks to the support of our
individual and corporate members, and LTC Tour Regional Representatives,
2008 has been a very productive and successful year for your Center for
Long-Term Care Reform. Today's LTC Bullet will list some of the year's
accomplishments.”
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January 6, 2009:
An
LTC Tour Retrospective. “I can't move on to bring you our huge new
plans for 2009 without pausing just once more this week to look back on
our LTC Tour of 2008. Today, I invite you down memory lane with ‘An LTC
Tour Retrospective.’ On Thursday, we'll give everyone a summary, and
Center members a TRANSCRIPT, of the LTC Tour's educational centerpiece:
our two-hour mini-version of the Center's full-day ‘Long-Term
Care Graduate Seminar.’” See also
this article that appeared in Broker World.
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February 2, 2010:
Columbo Interviews Don Quixote of LTC. “I [Stephen Moses] give a lot
of media interviews every year, but this was the most fun.”
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December 9, 2011:
LTC at Sundance. “The 13th annual Health Sector Assembly
brought together 70 thought leaders to discuss LTC services and
financing. Our message was heard loud and clear.
“Following is a
transcript of my remarks to the Health Sector Assembly. At the end of
those comments, I mentioned that I had prepared six ‘Briefing Papers’
which ask and answer key questions about long-term care ‘from a
perspective clearly at odds with conventional long-term care analysis.’
Staff of the event distributed a summary sheet with links to all six
essays to all of the attendees. In the coming weeks and months, we will
share the same material with you in forthcoming LTC Bullets.”
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January 20, 2012:
New LTC Clipping Service. “Subscribe to our new ‘LTC Clipping
Service’ and Steve Moses will send you an average of 1 to 3 critical LTC
articles per day so you can do business instead of searching the web.
Cost? Discounted thanks to a grant: Only $100 per year for Center
members; $120 per year for non-members; and free to Regional
Representatives of the Center. Contact Damon at 206-283-7036 or
damon@centerltc.com to subscribe. Details follow”
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December 20, 2013:
What Have You Done for Me Lately?. “Our annual report on the Center
for Long-Term Care Reform’s year follows [in this LTC Bullet].”
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July 16, 2014:
Free the LTCI 5000. “LTCI specialists should break their chains and
soar. We can help [in this LTC Bullet].”
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March 27, 2015:
The 15th Annual ILTCI Conference: A Virtual Visit. “The annual
Inter-Company Long-Term Care Insurance Conferences are always something
special. But this year’s meeting exceeded all that came before.” Find
out why in
this LTC Bullet and don’t miss the next one!
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