Assembly Bill A4049

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Creates a task force on universal long term care insurance

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2011-A4049 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S288
Current Committee:
Assembly Insurance
Law Section:
Insurance Law
Laws Affected:
Add §1117-a, Ins L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A1666, S3127
2013-2014: A4754
2015-2016: A6293

2011-A4049 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Creates a task force on universal long term care insurance to develop a plan for the financing and provisions for universal long term care insurance for all New Yorkers; provides that the task force shall be chaired by the director of the office for the aging; provides that such task force shall hold public hearings and issue reports.

2011-A4049 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  4049

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 1, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ENGLEBRIGHT -- read once and referred to the
  Committee on Insurance

AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to creating a task  force
  on universal long term care insurance

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Legislative findings and intent. The legislature finds  and
declares  that  the  average  length  of life is increasing and that the
population as a whole is aging. The age sixty-five  plus  population  is
expected  to  more than double between the years 2000 and 2030 to number
almost seventy million nationally. Sixty percent of those who reach  age
sixty-five  will  need some form of long term care. In comparison to the
state's total population increase of five and one-half  percent  between
the  years  1990 and 2000, the number of individuals age eighty-five and
older increased by twenty-five and one-half percent and is  the  fastest
growing  segment of our population. Dynamic changes in the state's popu-
lation will continue to increase as the baby boom generation reaches age
sixty and continues to mature. As one would anticipate from these shifts
in demographics, the need for affordable  long  term  care  services  is
growing and is expected to accelerate at a dramatic rate.
  In New York state, the average yearly cost of a nursing home can range
from  seventy  thousand dollars to one hundred fifteen thousand dollars.
Twenty-four hour home health care can cost more than  twice  this  much.
Many  New  Yorkers  are unable to afford the high cost of long term care
insurance and must rely on Medicaid to pay for the costs of home  health
or nursing home care.
  Congress  recognized  the  public  benefit of social insurance when it
implemented Social Security in order to better  the  condition  of  each
American  at  his  or her retirement and thereafter. Under its constitu-
tion, the state has an obligation to promote the general welfare of  its
citizens by enabling them to access the care they will need in their old

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD02571-01-1
              

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