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Excerpt from Long-Term Care in Health Care Reform: Parts I and II
Finally, States may continue to provide home and community based care through Medicaid as they do today.
The quality of services will be assessed through heavy reliance on consumer monitoring and consumer satisfaction surveys as well as careful reviews of health and safety features. Responsiveness to consumers, a hallmark of this program, is ensured by the require ment that Federal and specific State advisory boards, consistiu primarily of consumers and their representatives, be involved in afi aspects of this program.
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The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 10:04 a.m., in room SD-430, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Senator Barbara A. Mikulski (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Present: Senator Mikulski.
Opening Statement of Senator Mikulski
Senator Mikulski. Good morning, everybody. The subcommittee will come to order, and we will ask Mr. Fernando Torres-Gil and Ms. Stone to come to the table.
I wish to say that Senator Gregg wished very much to participate in this hearing, but because of an unexpected situation affecting himself and his family, he will not be able to be here today, but we will look forward to his participation later on in the week. And I will say to the Gregg staff as we move forward that if Senator Gregg would have a statement or comments, we will put those in the record.
Today is the first of a two-part hearing on the Presidents proposal for a new home and community-based long-term care program. We are going to begin this morning with testimony from the administration on the specifics of the home and community-based program and whom it will serve.
Following the administration, we will hear from representatives of the elderly and disabled community about the compelling need for long-term care services available in other noninstitutionalized settings in addition to their own homes.
As the chair of the Aging Subcommittee, I believe that health care reform must address the pressing need to clearly establish and support a continuum for long-term care. When the President began to look at health care reform, I know that he was told to stay away from several issues. One was long-term care. The naysayers said it was too expensive, too unwieldy, too complicated, that it would be a fiscal black hole and that if he entered into it, he would never emerge except perhaps in another universe and in another time.
But the President understood from the beginning that health care reform would not be complete without including home and community-based long-term care services.
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