PRINTER'S NO. 3208
No. 381 Session of 1998
INTRODUCED BY REINARD AND MICOZZIE, MARCH 18, 1998
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON INTERGOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS,
MARCH 18, 1998
A RESOLUTION
1 Memorializing Congress to enact legislation repealing existing
2 impediments against state long-term care partnerships.
3 WHEREAS, Costs borne by the taxpayers of the Commonwealth of
4 Pennsylvania for long-term care under Medicaid exceed more than
5 $500 million per fiscal year; and
6 WHEREAS, The costs of providing care for persons who can no
7 longer take care of themselves have skyrocketed, with a national
8 average of $38,000 per year for a nursing home stay and with
9 costs as high as $50,000 in metropolitan areas like Philadelphia
10 hitting the middle class particularly hard; and
11 WHEREAS, These costs to the Commonwealth will increase
12 because of the demands of our aging population and the fact that
13 baby boomers will soon be reaching retirement age; and
14 WHEREAS, A Pennsylvania solution to allow middle class
15 Pennsylvanians to exempt for Medicaid eligibility, assets as a
16 result of a purchase of private sector long-term care insurance
17 so as to reduce the eventual costs borne by taxpayers for their
1 care is stymied by section 1902(r)(2) of the Social Security Act
2 (49 Stat. 620, 42 U.S.C. § 1396a(r)(2)) which prohibits such
3 shielding; therefore be it
4 RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the
5 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania memorialize the Congress of the
6 United States to enact legislation repealing section 1902(r)(2)
7 of the Social Security Act (49 Stat. 620, 42 U.S.C. §
8 1396a(r)(2)); and be it further
9 RESOLVED, That copies of this resolution be transmitted to
10 the presiding officers of each house of Congress and to each
11 member of Congress from Pennsylvania.
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