Percentage
of Expenditures for Nursing Home and
Home Health Care, by Source of Payment, 1999
Source:
US General Accounting Office (2001). Long Term Care:
Baby Boom Generation Increases Challenge of Financing
Needed Services. GAO-01-563T.
Medicare
does not pay for long term care.
Most people
incorrectly assume that Medicare pays for long term
care. In reality, Medicare pays only for short-term
skilled care in nursing facilities after hospitalization
and limited skilled care at
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