2009

January

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2007

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2006

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2005

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2004

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2003

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2002

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2001 

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2000
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1999
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1998
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All Editions Archived by Date

January, 2009 return to top

• LTCI Tax Deductibility--State and Federal
• Feds Bite the Big LTC Financing Apple
• Strike While the LTC Iron is Hot!
• We Critique WSJ on Medicaid Planning
• So What If the Government Pays for Most LTC?, 2007 Data Update
• LTC Graduate Seminar Transcription--Get Yours!
• An LTC Tour Retrospective

December, 2008 return to top

• Season's Greetings
• What Have You Done for Me Lately?
• The Entitlement Hurricane
• Think Reverse, Book Review

November, 2008 return to top

• Hitting My Stride
• Broker World Covers LTC Tour
• New LTC Numbers You Need to Know

October, 2008 return to top

• LTC Whammy!
• You Get the Long-Term Care You Pay For
• Long-Term Living Magazine Covers Our 2008 LTC Tour
• LTC Catch Up
• What's Your LTC Plan?

September, 2008 return to top

• We Touch Thousands of CPAs with Professional Video
• What Ruins the LTCI Market?
• The Savage Truth on LTCI
• The LTC Promise
• LTC Tour End-of-Year Special

August, 2008 return to top

• Uninsurance Problem Solved. For LTC Too?
• Book Review: The Graying of the Great Powers
• LTCI Thrives on HCBS While Medicaid Flounders
• Big Week for the LTC Tour
• Marilee Driscoll Reports on the 2nd Annual Partnership Summit (Part 2 of 2)
• Marilee Driscoll Reports on the 2nd Annual Partnership Summit (Part 1 of 2)
• LIMRA on the LTC Tour

July, 2008 return to top

• LTC Touches One of Our Own
• The LTC Housing Sieve
• NYT Asks Medicaid Planner to Advise on LTCI
• LTC Tour Meets the Fearless Caregiver
• LTC Tour Big News and Opportunities

June, 2008 return to top

• LTC Tour Update, Etc.
• LTC Compact Update
• Newspaper Coverage of LTC Tour Event
• Medicaid Planning Update

May, 2008 return to top

• LTC ViaRail
• The LTC Score

April, 2008 return to top

• Livin' in Aluminum
• LTC Mystery Tour in Cairo and Athens
• How to Cure LTC
• Host the LTC Tour: A Do-It-Yourself Guide
• LTC Planning Requires Emotion AND Thought
• LTC-TV

March, 2008 return to top

• The Jacksonville LTCI Conference
• Pre-emptive LTC Media Response
• National Underwriter Highlights Center's WSJ Response
• Tallahassee Bound

February, 2008 return to top

• WSJ Attacks LTCI, We Respond
• The LTC Tour (Mile 4350)
• Hillary on LTC
• Reversing Your Mortgage for Elder Care
• LTC Tour Touches LTC Providers

January, 2008 return to top

• Roll Call Exposes Sleazy CREW
• LTC Tour in North Carolina; Report Published
• So What If the Government Pays for Most LTC?, 2006 Data Update
• McKnight's Editor Highlights LTC Tour
• LTC Tour's First Event Makes the News
• Hillary Clinton on LTC

December, 2007 return to top

• Season's Greetings
• Got LTC?
• LTC Graduate Seminar for Everyone
• A Major Boost for the 2008 LTC Tour
• What Have You Done for Me Lately?
• LTC Tour Publicity Begins

November, 2007 return to top

• A Home Can Protect Both Health and Wealth
• LTCI's Share of LTC Costs
• The Senior Solution--Book Review
• LTC Tour Itinerary 
• The LTCI Power List

October, 2007 return to top

• Who Ya Gonna Call?
• LTC Tour Financial Update
• The Trojan Horse of LTC
• The LTCi Conspiracy
• LTC Tour Update and Endorsement
• 125,000 LTCi Policies and No Claims Payment Problem
• Why Not Medicaid?
• The Silver Bullet of Long-Term Care

September, 2007 return to top

• Book Review--Harley Gordon's Latest
• LTC Racism
• The National LTC Consciousness Tour -- The Plan
• The National LTC Consciousness Tour -- How to Participate
• The National LTC Consciousness Tour -- Content, Schedule, Itinerary
• The National LTC Consciousness Tour -- Resolution

August, 2007 return to top

• The Long-Term Care Graduate Seminar
• LTC Culture Shock
• Medicaid's Raw Deal
• New Books on Long-Term Care Planning
• Nursing Home Pot Calling LTCi Kettle Black?
• The Long-Term Care Graduate Seminar

July, 2007 return to top

• The NY Compact:  Analysis, Conclusions, and Recommendations
• WSJ Advises on Medicaid Planning
• The New York Long-Term Care Compact Proposal
• What's Really Happening to LTC?
• Medicaid Estate Recover. . .up

June, 2007 return to top

• The Brave New World of Long-Term Care
• GAO on LTCI Partnerships
• LTC Embed:  Report from the Policy Front in New England

May, 2007 return to top

• Medicaid Pushers
• How CMS Bought a Half-Billion-Dollar Double-Edged LTC Sword
• Legal Abuse of Medicaid LTC Rife Post-DRA
• LTC on the House
• GAO AWOL on LTC TOA

April, 2007 return to top

• Medicaid Flunks, So What Now?
• First Do No Harm
• LTC Compact Study Proposal
• States Can Fix Long-Term Care Problems
• First LTC Gadfly Brigade Mobilizes
• Sucker Punched in Dallas
• What's Really Happening to Long-Term Care?

March, 2007 return to top

• Focus on AALTCI
• JBQ in Newsweek:  Use LTCI or RMs, Not Medicaid
• Don't Mess With Texans' LTC--Fix It!
• LTC Embed:  Report from the Policy Front
• National LTC Consciousness Campaign Begins in Iowa

February, 2007 return to top

• What, Me Worry About Medicaid and LTC?
• LTC Embed:  Reverse Mortgage First Impressions
• Take Georgetown's Facts With a Big Grain of Salt
• NAELA Overboard
• Pension Protection Act of 2006
• LTC Gadflies in Iowa

January, 2007 return to top

• Long-Term Care Awareness Campaign
• LTC Bias
• LTC Gadflies
• The Almanac of Long-Term Care
• So What If the Government Pays for Most LTC?, 2005 Data Update
• The DRA Bullets
• False Spring in Long-Term Care Winter

December, 2006 return to top

• Season's Greetings
• What Have You Done for Me Lately?
• The Eyes of Texas are Upon Elder Care

November, 2006 return to top

• New LTC Research and What It Means for You

• The Future of LTC and Medicaid

• The Brave New World of Long-Term Care

• Special Edition for LTCi Producers

• Plain(s) Talk on Medicaid and Long-Term Care

October, 2006 return to top

• Halloween Scare and New Members-Only Feature
• Congressional Quarterly Nails the LTC Issue
• Why They Don't Buy LTCi
• LTC Blues in the Empire State
• What States Should Do About the DRA, LTCi and HEC

September, 2006 return to top

• Moses and Shelton on NPR re LTCi
• The Long-Term Care DRAma in Congress

August, 2006 return to top

• Forward on Reverse Mortgages
• Damned if You Don't
• LTCi's Toughest Questions Answered
• Medicaid Commission Errs by Omission
• Dueling Letters

July, 2006 return to top

• Bravo CMS!
• Untangling the Deficit Reduction Act
• The Future of LTC and Medicaid
• Kansas Study
• LTC Embed Report from the Policy Front in Hagerstown, Maryland
• LTC Embed Reports from the Policy Front, MD and DC

June, 2006 return to top

• The New LTC Dialogue
• LTC Grab Bag
• A Different Approach to LTCI
• LTCi Contradictions Resolved?
• Let's Fight Back!
• LTCi Contradictions
• How Medicaid Short Changes LTC Providers, Insurers and Patients

May, 2006 return to top

• Medicaid Commission Update
• Center and Friends in the Press
• Facing Facts on Medicare and LTC Financing
• Texas Gerontologist Whips Medicaid Planner in TV Debate

April, 2006 return to top

• Kaiser Cover-Up Continues
• NYT Editorial Favors HEC for LTC
• Who Still Gets Medicaid LTC Without Spending Down?
• Spousal Refusal:  Who Wins?  Who Loses?
• Kiplinger's:  Beware Medicaid, Buy LTCi, Get HEC
• Told You So
• The Deficit Reduction Act of 2005

March, 2006 return to top

• Financial Planning Made Easy
• Microsimulate This!
• Virtual Visit to LTCi Conference
• On Using Home Equity for LTC
• NAELA's New Nadir
• Public Misperceptions About Retirement
• "Analysis:  Congress Strengthens Long-Term Care"
• What I Believe About Long-Term Care

February, 2006 return to top

• The Brave New World of LTC Financing
• Book and Interview on LTC Planning--New Edition
• The Plot Thickens
• LTC Insanity
• The Savage Number
• State Moves Toward Private LTC Financing Alternatives
• LTC Victory
• LTC Embed--Report from the Front

January, 2006 return to top

• LTC Showdown
• As LTC Climax Approaches, CBO Estimates Savings
• Georgetown, GAO and Kaiser:  The Bermuda Triangle of Good LTC Policy
• LTC Doubletalk
• Opponents of Medicaid Reform Advocate Reverse Robin Hood Policies
• State Tackles the Real LTC Challenge
• So What If the Government Pays for Most LTC?, 2004 Data Update
• On Asset Transfers, Charitable Giving and Nursing Homes
• Index of the Long-Term Care Uninsured
• NPR Defends Medicaid Planning, Attacks Messenger

December, 2005 return to top

• Season's Greetings and then Some
• LTC Denouement . . . for Now
• Good News, Bad News
• Urgent You Act, It's Now or Never
• House Passes Historic LTC Reform; Center Helps Tip Balance; AARP Spurned
• Watch for Moses Op-Ed in WSJ Tomorrow (Saturday)
• Rural Hijinks--Buy Cattle, Hide $737,960, Get Medicaid
• Senator Snookered (R, OR)
• LTC Demagogy
• What Goes Around, Comes Around:  The IG and Estate Recoveries

November, 2005 return to top

• A Taste of What's to Come
• How Japan Escapes "LTC Hell"

October, 2005 return to top

• Medicaid LTC More Generous than English Socialized System
• What Have You Done for Me Lately?
• LTCi Update
• USA Today "Burns" Nursing Homes
• GAO on TOA Underwhelms
• Long-Term Care's Broken Window

September, 2005 return to top

• The Critical Role of Medicaid Estate Recoveries
• Transforming Medicaid and LTC
• A New Cannon in Our Health Policy Arsenal
• Medicaid Budget Reconciliation Sneak Peek
• Disaster Come Disaster
• Who Should Pay for Long-Term Care?
• WSJ Says Don't Count on Government for LTC
• LTC Debate Preview and Guide
• Aging America's Achilles' Heel

August, 2005 return to top

• Long-Term Care Insurance Under the Microscope
• Sound Solutions for Long-Term Care
• The Great Debate on Medicaid and LTC
• We're Not in Kansas Anymore

July, 2005 return to top

• I Don't Need LTCi . . . I Have VA, July 2005

• Alzheimer's Association Shortsighted on LTC Financing, July 2005

June, 2005 return to top

• LTC Bombshell
• Should Medicaid Protect Retirement Savings?
• Bing, Bang, Boom:  Another Plan for LTC Reform
• LTC Disconnect
• The "Durable" Reverse Mortgage

May, 2005 return to top

• The Medicaid Commission
• Where There's Smoke, There's Fire
• Excellent New Reports on Medicaid LTC Eligibility Published
• LTCi Coverage:  What's the Right Size?
• GAO on TOA
• The Center is Dead . . . Long Live the Center

April, 2005 return to top

• LTC Embed: Report from the Front (Congress #2)
• Center to Give Congressional Testimony
• New Book and Interview on LTC Planning
• Governors Get Going on LTC Reform
• New York Medicaid Planners Are Coming Around
• Why Does Georgetown Dodge RAMs?
• Should You Buy LTCi? Or What if You Don't?

March, 2005 return to top

• Who is the Lone Ranger of Long-Term Care?
• Big Problems, Small Victories
• New Book on Reverse Mortgages Plus an EXTRA
• Roll Call's Kondracke Says Stop Medicaid Planning Abuse and Encourage LTCi
• SSI Expands Medicaid's "Renoir" and "Two Mercedes" Loopholes
• Santa Fe Rules

February, 2005 return to top

• Special Alert, Time Sensitive, Please Read Now
• How Medicaid Crowds Out LTC Insurance
• The Minnesota Twins: Medicaid and Long-Term Care
• Transfer Your Home to Get Medicaid?
• Use Your Home to Stay . . . Off Medicaid!
• Clueless in Orlando

January, 2005 return to top

• So What If the Government Pays for Most LTC, 2003 Data Update
• LTC Druggies?
• How to Save Medicaid $20 Billion Per Year

December, 2004 return to top

• Help Wanted--How are Medicaid Friendly Annuities Negotiable?
• Season's Greetings
• Is the Jig Up for Medicaid Planning?
• What Have You Done for Me Lately?
• To Save Long-Term Care, Ask the Right Questions
• Foxes Guarding the Chicken House

November, 2004 return to top

• Out of the Medicaid Frying Pan, Into the Fire
• Medicaid vs. LTC
• What's Wrong With This Advice?
• Of Superman, Bedsores and Nursing Home Litigation

October, 2004 return to top

• LTC Juxtapositions
• Reality Check: Flawed Article on LTCi
• Medicaid and LTCi in KS and LA Support Center's Analysis
• Ken Dychtwald on the "Silver Ceiling"
• California Dreamin' About LTC

September, 2004 return to top

• Simple Guide to Reverse Mortgages
• Courts Promote Medicaid Planning
• The Long-Term Care Dilemma
• Mysteries of LTC Revealed
• The Realist's Guide to Medicaid and Long-Term Care
• Who Should Pay for Long-Term Care?

August, 2004 return to top

• Medicaid's Perverse Incentives
• Caregiving Crisis Continues
• Do People on Medicaid Get Worse Nursing Home Care?

June, 2004 return to top

• LTC Tickler
• CBO Says Medicaid Crowds Out LTC Insurance
• Could You Lift Your Husband From the Floor?
• Bankruptcy Plagues Seniors

May, 2004 return to top

• How Middle Class Medicaid Ruins LTC for Everyone
• AARP Harping Misses Mark on LTCi Rate Stability
• Medicaid Planning and Estate Recovery Issues Are Heating Up
• The Sirens' Call, The Primrose Path, and Assisted Living

April, 2004 return to top 

• The Perfect Generational Storm is Coming
• Takacs Tackles LTC Anomalies
• The Medicaid Seduction
• HEC of a Way to Pay for LTCi 
• Special LTC Project Update

March, 2004 return to top 

• On The New Math of Long-Term Care Insurance
• Guardian Nightmare or How Heirs Rob the Elderly
• How Medicaid Planners Seduce Nursing Homes
• Center Announces Special LTC Project
• LTCi Professional Liability for Financial Advisors
• No Wonder They Don't Buy LTCi
• John Stossel on LTCi . . . Oops, Flood Insurance

February, 2004 return to top 

• LTC "Memorial" is a Model for States
• Medicaid Maneuvers Are Dangerous, Warns WSJ
• Changing LTC Public Policy: Why-What-When?
• Don't Forget Why We're Doing This
• Presidential Hopefuls Give Lip Service to LTC

January, 2004 return to top 

• Basich Balderdash on LTC Financing
• So What If the Government Pays for Most LTC, 2002 Data Update
• The Unspeakable, Spoken
• What About Nursing Homes?
• LTC Financing Irony

December, 2003 return to top

• Season's Greetings and a Holiday Policy Gift
• What Have You Done for Me Lately?
• When Should You Buy LTCI and Why?
• The Heartland Model for Long-Term Care Reform
• What Should Be Done About Medicaid Profiteers?

November, 2003 return to top

• Medicaid, LTCI and RAMs: The CMS Perspective
• Medicaid Planners Convicted
• Huge New Funding Source for LTC and LTCI

October, 2003 return to top

• Don't Look to Germany for a Long-Term Care Model
• Mr. Long-Term Care Speaks Out
• Consumer Reports Targets LTCI, Hits Self
• Reader's Digest Tells Subscribers How to "Shed Their Assets" to Get Medicaid
• Medicaid, Nursing Homes, Quality Problems and Insurance: How to Connect the Dots
• Medicaid Planners Confess

September, 2003 return to top

• Medicaid and the Future of Long-Term Care Financing
• Dire Warnings from the Feds
• LTC is Number One Priority

August, 2003 return to top

• What Goes Around Comes Around
• Index of Uninsurability Needs Adjustment
• 50 Ways to Survive in LTCI--Book Review

July, 2003 return to top

• Do We Owe Apologies to Our Grandchildren?
• "And Thou Shalt Honor" -- How to Get Involved
• Medicaid Loopholes by State
• Beware the Baby Boomer Bust
• Medicaid Waivers Waver on Quality
• Seeking LTC Solutions
• LTC Safety Net or Inheritance Insurance?
• USA Today Blasts Medicaid Planning, Urges Reform
• The WSJ on LTCI--Reality Check

June, 2003 return to top

• How Can Private LTC Insurance Help Save Medicaid?
• State Farm/Roper LTCI Poll Informs but Begs Bigger Question
• Shelton's 2003 LTC Planning Guide is Good and Current
• Paean to Providers in Pain
• Long-Term Care Lemmings
• Scully Has it Right, Almost

May, 2003 return to top

• Massachusetts’s Legislators Misguided on LTCI
• LTC Allegory Strikes a Chord with Providers
• Options for the LTC Uninsurable
• "Elder Rage" is a Hoot
• Open Letter to Governors on Medicaid and LTC
• The Magic Bullet for Long-Term Care
• Levy's Cadette on LTC Financing Policy
• On the Lack of True Marketing of Long-Term Care Insurance

April, 2003 return to top

• The CLTC Class and Certification
• The Florida Fulcrum
• "AWOLTC: LTC Leaders Away Without Leave"
• Medicaid Planning Ads in the New York Times
• If You Think We've Got Problems . . .
• Long-Term Care Crisis Builds
• No April Fools Joke

March, 2003 return to top

• SNALF Interview on How to Save Medicaid
• If Government and Business Renege, Will Individual Responsibility Flourish?
• Long-Term Care in the Crosshairs
• The Elephant, The Blind Men and Long-Term Care
• ACLI's Paean to LTCI
• In the Lion's Den of Medicaid Planning