Monday, February 6, 2023

2:00 - 3:00 pm

Eastern Time

 Update and Learnings from Washington State: 

What it means For the Future of Publicly Financed Long-Term Care Programs

Ben Veghte, Director WA Cares Fund  

 ABOUT THE TOPIC:

The nation’s first state-based universal long-term care insurance program, the WA Cares Fund, begins collecting premiums this July and can begin paying benefits in 2026. The program has been fine-tuned in significant ways since its enactment in 2019. What enhancements have been made?  What has the state learned about best practices for program design and administration? What has the state learned about potential public-private partnership? What issues remain to be addressed?

About the Speaker 

Benjamin W. Veghte is Director of the WA Cares Fund, the state’s new universal long term care program. He is an MIT CoLab Fellow, a Care Guild innovator, and an incoming member of the Board of Trustees of the American Society on Aging. Ben has three decades of experience researching and designing social insurance programs, with a focus over the past decade on care policy. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.TO ACCESS THE MEETING:

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