130.935 Long Term Care – The Impending Crisis
The Medical Society of the State of New York recognizes the crisis of long term health care financing and will look for innovative programs which would balance individual responsibility for long term health care costs and society’s role in making long term health care insurance available to all. It is position of the Medical Society that people should be allowed to purchase long term care insurance with continued positive and no negative tax implications and those who exhaust private insurance benefits be automatically enrolled in the Medicaid program without a need to spend down their assets.
The Medical Society of the State of New York work will work with the AMA to support a public option to cover the long term health insurance needs of all Americans through a Long Term Health Insurance Trust Fund financed with fees paid by all Americans during their lifetime. (HOD 2014-115; Reaffirmed HOD 2024)
