Long-Term Care Financing

For more information, contact Stacy Becker at stacybecker[at]comcast.net.

This project aims to answer the question: What policy changes are needed to create incentives for personal responsibility for long term care?

The purpose of the Citizens League's Long-Term Care Financing Project is to develop one or two "high-leverage" policy solutions (i.e. both high-impact and feasible) for financing long-term care in Minnesota. The project is a collaborative effort of more than twenty funders.

Next Steps

  1. To begin work immediately on designing a financing plan for MN that uses the framework developed in the workshops:
    1. A basic flexible benefit, preferably cash;
    2. A "buy up" plan that would have incentives for people to save;
    3. Medicaid reform to remove disincentives for personal responsibility; and
    4. A broad, inclusive public campaign that would draw Minnesotans into the discussion.
  2. The Steering Team will meet with the MN Chamber of Commerce and MN Business Partnership subcommittee on long-term care to discuss how we can support one another's efforts.
  3. The organizations represented by the Steering Team members provide leadership support for a financial plan assuming it is developed in a way that reaches broad consensus among the stakeholders and builds on feedback from the public at large.

These next steps are built upon nine months of work -- read more on the project background.