Not Such a CLASS Act: America’s Long-Term Care Problem
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Robert P. Saldin
Robert P. Saldin is an associate professor of political science at the University of Montana and was a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research at Harvard University. His book on the CLASS Act’s role in the 2009–2010 health reform effort and the contemporary policymaking process will be published later this year by Oxford University Press. He is also the author ofWar, the American State, and Politics since 1898 (Cambridge, 2011) as well as numerous scholarly articles appearing in outlets such asThe Journal of Politics ,Journal of Policy History , andPolitical Research Quarterly .
Abstract
Long-term care is a serious but largely unrecognized problem in the US. The CLASS Act was a new program embedded within the Affordable Care Act that was supposed to bring relief to disabled individuals and Medicaid, the primary payer for long-term care. However, the program had an unworkable design, and it was eventually abandoned by the Obama administration. CLASS’ flaws were largely the product of a policy area in which ignorance and misinformation render any effective and fiscally sound program politically unfeasible. As such, the rise and fall of the CLASS Act highlights the profound challenges facing any attempt to pass serious long-term care reform and underscores the need to raise awareness of America’s long-term care challenge.
About the author
Robert P. Saldin is an associate professor of political science at the University of Montana and was a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research at Harvard University. His book on the CLASS Act’s role in the 2009–2010 health reform effort and the contemporary policymaking process will be published later this year by Oxford University Press. He is also the author of War, the American State, and Politics since 1898 (Cambridge, 2011) as well as numerous scholarly articles appearing in outlets such as The Journal of Politics, Journal of Policy History, and Political Research Quarterly.
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- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- Politics at the Precipice: Fixing Social Security in 2033
- The Segmented Third Rail: The Politics of Social Security from Carter to Obama
- Unraveling from Within? The Affordable Care Act and Self-Undermining Policy Feedbacks
- Opting In, Opting Out: The Politics of State Medicaid Expansion
- Not Such a CLASS Act: America’s Long-Term Care Problem
- Reassessing the Conventional Wisdom: Entitlements from the Inside
- The Role of the Private Sphere in US Healthcare Entitlements: Increased Spending, Weakened Public Mobilization, and Reduced Equity
- Mistaken for Dead: The Affordable Care Act and the Continued Resilience of Medicare Advantage
- Martha Derthick and the Art of Policy History: A Scholarly Appreciation
- On Martha Derthick
- Martha Derthick and The Influence of Federal Grants: Explaining Federalism
- Book reviews
- Electing the Senate: Senate Elections before the 17th Amendment
- The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left
