CONCEPT DRAFT

SUMMARY

This resolve is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208.

This resolve proposes to establish a blue ribbon commission to investigate and analyze the future costs of providing long-term health care to elderly and disabled adults and recommend an integrated system of financing the projected costs of these services.

The commission will investigate all relevant questions bearing on this issue, including but not limited to the following:

1. Whether the financial risk associated with uncertain long- term health care costs should be shared through some type of public or private insurance system;

2. Whether individuals should be encouraged or required to begin saving for predictable long-term health care needs at earlier ages; and

3. Whether each generation of working adults should pay for the long-term care costs of their parents' and grandparents' generations.

The commission will be funded with grants, donations and other nonstate-funded sources of revenue.