{"id":15833,"date":"2014-01-17T08:13:55","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T13:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=15833"},"modified":"2014-01-17T08:13:55","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T13:13:55","slug":"insured-for-old-age-an-economist-explains-the-dangers-of-long-term-care-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2014\/01\/17\/insured-for-old-age-an-economist-explains-the-dangers-of-long-term-care-insurance\/","title":{"rendered":"Insured for old age? An economist explains the dangers of long-term care insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>PBS<\/em> web site has the article <a title=\"PBS article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/rundown\/2014\/01\/insured-for-old-age-an-economist-explains-the-dangers-of-long-term-care-insurance.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Insured for old age? An economist explains the dangers of long-term care insurance<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Although Medicaid laws and limits are given here for illustrative purposes only and are subject to change and interpretation, understanding them does help explain many experts&#8217; contention that there is a narrow window of wealth that should determine a couple&#8217;s need for long-term care insurance. At the bottom end, if non-home, non-car assets are below $115,920, Medicaid will kick in to fund the partner who needs long-term care. At the upper end, if non-home assets are above about $700,000, a couple can self-fund most nursing home stays without depleting assets. It is those whose wealth ranges from about $150,000 to $700,000 who have the greatest need for conventional long-term care insurance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Although I wouldn&#8217;t put much faith in anything that is on PBS these days, perhaps this article does give you a place to start thinking about this issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The PBS web site has the article Insured for old age? An economist explains the dangers of long-term care insurance. Although Medicaid laws and limits are given here for illustrative purposes only and are subject to change and interpretation, understanding them does help explain many experts&#8217; contention that there is a narrow window of wealth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15833","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15834,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15833\/revisions\/15834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}