{"id":14360,"date":"2024-10-08T20:53:19","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T20:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=14360"},"modified":"2024-10-08T21:23:43","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T21:23:43","slug":"harris-proposes-a-medicare-plan-to-provide-home-care-vision-and-hearing-ben","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=14360","title":{"rendered":"Harris Proposes a Medicare Plan to Provide Home Care, Vision and Hearing Ben"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Vice President Kamala Harris outlined a new proposal for home health care on \u201cThe View\u201d on Tuesday, describing a Medicare expansion plan that she said would help what is called the \u201csandwich generation\u201d to take care of aging parents.<\/p>\n

That constituency includes many adults who find themselves straddling the responsibility of rearing their children at the same time that their parents need more assistance to stay at home.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are so many people who are right in the middle,\u201d said Ms. Harris on the ABC talk show.<\/p>\n

She recalled caring for her mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris, before she died of cancer in 2009. \u201cIt\u2019s about dignity for that individual. It\u2019s about independence for that individual,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Home health services that last more than a few months represent \u201cthe biggest gap in Medicare,\u201d said David Grabowksi, a health policy professor at Harvard who studies long-term care. Medicaid, the federal-state program for the poor, covers home care for elderly and disabled Americans who need it, but people are forced to spend all their savings to qualify and often face long waiting periods.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Harris campaign said that the plan would be paid for with savings from the expansion of Medicare price negotiations with drug manufacturers, which is expected to lower government spending for older people\u2019s prescriptions. But it is not clear how much the additional benefits under the Harris plan would cost.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis would be transformative from a care perspective,\u201d Mr. Grabowski said, but he added that the price could be very high. \u201cThere will be a lot of sticker shock once this is costed out.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Vice President Kamala Harris outlined a new proposal for home health care on \u201cThe View\u201d on Tuesday, describing a Medicare expansion plan that she said would help what is called the \u201csandwich generation\u201d to take care of aging parents.That constituency includes many adults who find themselves straddling the responsibility of rearing their children at the same time that their parents need more assistance to stay at home.\u201cThere are so many people who are right in the middle,\u201d said Ms. Harris on the ABC talk show.She recalled caring for her mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris, before she died of cancer in 2009. \u201cIt\u2019s about dignity for that individual. It\u2019s about independence for that individual,\u201d she said.Home health services that last more than a few months represent \u201cthe biggest gap in Medicare,\u201d said David Grabowksi, a health policy professor at Harvard who studies long-term care. Medicaid, the federal-state program for the poor, covers home care for elderly and disabled Americans who need it, but people are forced to spend all their savings to qualify and often face long waiting periods.The Harris campaign said that the plan would be paid for with savings from the expansion of Medicare price negotiations with drug manufacturers, which is expected to lower government spending for older people\u2019s prescriptions. But it is not clear how much the additional benefits under the Harris plan would cost.\u201cThis would be transformative from a care perspective,\u201d Mr. Grabowski said, but he added that the price could be very high. \u201cThere will be a lot of sticker shock once this is costed out.\u201dWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14362,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14360"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14363,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14360\/revisions\/14363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}