You Could Be a Federal Long-Term Care Policy Advisor

Twelve are supposed to come from different sectors outside the federal government. Nominees could be health care providers, representatives from state health departments, researchers with dementia-related expertise, voluntary health association members, and dementia patient advocates. At least one of the advocates is supposed to be an individual living with dementia.

The individual living with dementia serves a two-year term. The other non-federal members serve four-year terms.

The council has occasionally talked in the past about efforts to support caregivers, to help individuals prepare for future long-term care needs, and to help families pay for known long-term care needs. In the past, insurance companies, insurance agents and financial planners from outside the insurance industry have not played a prominent role in council activities.

Price could change that. In the past, Price had a good relationship with the insurance community. He helped get Congress to classify indexed annuities as state-regulated insurance products, rather than federally regulated securities.

— Read David Hyde Pierce: U.S. Needs Caregiver Support Yardstick on ThinkAdvisor.