Kamala Harris’s plan, which would face an uphill battle to become law, aims to help Americans caring for elderly parents.
Updated: 19 minutes agoDemocratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a rally at the Dort Financial Center in Flint, Mich., Friday, Oct. 4, 2024.
The problem has grown increasingly acute in recent years as the baby-boomer generation ages, studies suggest. Medicare offers coverage for at-home services only under narrow circumstances and on a short-term basis, and most private insurance plans do not cover long-term, at-home care. “It is a personal experience for me, as well as something I care deeply about,” Harris said. “There are so many people in our country who are right in the middle. They’re taking care of their kids and they’re taking care of their aging parents. And it’s just almost impossible to do it all, especially if they work.”
Medicaid offers a long-term care benefit, but only those with lower incomes qualify for that government-run health program. The majority of elderly Americans are on Medicare, which provides few, if any, options for long-term at-home care. Harris made the announcement during a media blitz on Tuesday in New York as she and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, aim to reach a broad swath of voters through television, podcasts and radio interviews.
But such a program would be enormously expensive, and the Harris campaign did not offer an estimate for how much it would cost. The Brookings Institution recently estimated that a Medicare home benefit would cost the federal government about $40 billion a year.
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