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By Patti on
1/26/2012 9:48 AM
The 2012 Legislative Session began this week, with a few key bipartisan themes: jobs and reform. Yup, it is tough to argue with creating more jobs, sustaining current jobs, and “doing things smarter.” So let’s talk about the call for reform. Certainly this is not the first time either the administration or one political party or another tooted the reform horn. Some of the concepts on the Republican’s Reform 2.0 list (www.reform2.mn) are great ideas — especially the one we forwarded to them on conversion of life insurance policies to pay for long-term care services! Most of the list is either “low hanging fruit” or concepts, rather than true reform plans.
When I think of reform I think of really changing up some long-standing ways of doing things in this state.
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By Patti on
1/10/2012 9:21 AM
2012 may prove to be as confusing and as dynamic as 2011 when it comes to long-term care changes. Clearly in 2011 there were planning efforts underway to implement various reform initiatives that passed the state legislature in 2008, 2009 and 2011; and the federal health care reform act of 2010. In other words, there is reform on top of reform on top of reform going on. … No wonder it is hard to keep up.
As the new year begins, I thought it would be helpful to provide an update on the various initiatives that are underway as well as an opinion on their impact. I apologize in advance for the lengthy list — it doesn’t even include all of the projects underway because that would be as long as a novel!
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