{"id":13368,"date":"2019-06-07T08:26:34","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T12:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13368"},"modified":"2019-06-07T08:26:34","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T12:26:34","slug":"payroll-tax-is-one-states-bold-solution-to-help-seniors-age-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13368","title":{"rendered":"Payroll Tax Is One State\u2019s Bold Solution To Help Seniors Age At Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Donna Gordon Blankinship for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>Nearly a decade after federal officials discarded a provision in the Affordable Care Act that would have provided Americans with long-term care insurance benefits, two states \u2014 Washington and Hawaii \u2014 are experimenting with taxpayer-funded plans to help older residents remain in their homes.<\/p>\n<p>Washington state\u2019s ambitious plan, signed into law in May, will employ a new 0.58% payroll tax (or \u201cpremium,\u201d as policymakers prefer to call it) to fund a $36,500 benefit for individuals to pay for home health care, as well as other services \u2014 from installing grab bars in the shower to respite care for family caregivers.\u00a0 Continue reading<a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/payroll-tax-is-one-states-bold-solution-to-help-seniors-age-at-home\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=73459792&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8N2Vg-oaMqyeNnXhT4nhbq2YP1V2Sj4St2n6sLPqBEOXp_jZjU1Hy-GX-hCUVNbbijr1vCTmgXZzygKbd5K7bSm0l35g&amp;_hsmi=73459792\"> article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-899\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Donna Gordon Blankinship for Kaiser Health News) Nearly a decade after federal officials discarded a provision in the Affordable<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-health-care-redesign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13369,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13368\/revisions\/13369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}