Discrimination Risks of Alzheimer’s as Support for Social Insurance for Long-Term Care

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2018

Abstract

This short reflection on an article by J. J. Arias, A. M. Tyler, B. J. Oster, and J. Karlawish (“The Proactive Patient: Long-term Care Insurance Discrimination Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease Biomarkers,” Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 46, no. 2 (2018): 485-498) makes clear why the private market for long-term care insurance, and its regulation, will perpetually fail to protect families against the risks to their security posed by a family member with Alzheimer’s. It describes why a comprehensive federal solution is the only feasible and wise option.

Keywords

Law & society, health economics & policy, CLASS Act, private insurance markets, social insurance, long-term care, Alzheimer’s, dementia, next-friend risk, informal caregivers

Publication Title

Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics

Publication Citation

46 J. L. Med. & Ethics 499 (2018)

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