Aging Responsibly and with Purpose Incredibly, the old will soon outnumber the young. According to projections just released by the Census Bureau, the population of Americans 65 and older will exceed the number of children in 2035 for the first…
More than 1.4 million Americans live in nursing homes; two-thirds of whom are primarily covered by Medicare and Medicaid. They are our frail elderly, disabled, medically compromised, and cognitively impaired who are at risk because they cannot care for themselves.…
Though every state in this nation struggles with escalating and unmanageable healthcare costs, only Oregon has established a rationing policy for the care needs of those on Medicaid. Oregon’s overt rationing plan has suffered the bumps and bruises of being…