Gerald J. Brown, MD has said Health Care & Obama, the book he’s writing will be finished when the health care bill is signed. The writer feels it warranted to point to, in the Senate bill that passed December 24, 2009; the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Act (CLASS Act); H.R. 1721, the following words found on page 1926:
The purpose of this title is to establish a national voluntary insurance program for purchasing
community living assistance and supports in order to—
(1) provide individuals with functional limitations with tools that will allow them to maintain their personal and financial independence and live in the community through a new financing strategy for community living assistance services and supports;
(2) establish an infrastructure that will help address the Nation’s community living assistance and supports needs;
(3) alleviate burdens on family caregivers ; and
(4) address institutional bias by providing a financing mechanism that supports personal choice and independence to live in the community.
This, the CLASS Act, the late Senator Edward Kennedy fought for up until
he died.
The CLASS Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to create a national, voluntary disability insurance program (CLASS program) under which: (1) all employees are automatically enrolled, but are allowed to waive enrollment; (2) payroll deductions pay monthly premiums; and (3) two-tiered benefits are provided, based on the level of disability, to purchase nonmedical services and supports that the beneficiary needs to maintain independence, the Congressional Research Service has explained. From a fiscal standpoint all agree permitting disabled and elderly citizens to remain in their homes, desired by most, is cheaper than more institutionalized modalities otherwise required, with nursing home care costing about $200 per day. And this will create paying jobs for elderly women who regardless do such work.