Persons with Disabilities

<DIV><P>A key issue in the debate about reforming the U.S. health care system is how to finance and organize the delivery of long-term care. This volume offers perspectives on several important facets of this problem including the regulation of private long-term care insurance catastrophic out-of-pocket costs and the use of long-term care and acute care services by the chronically disabled elderly.</P><P>In addition to the editors the contributors are Lisa Alecxih David Kennell and John Corea Lewin-VHI; Brian Burwell and William Crown SysteMetrics; Terry Coughlin Korbin Liu and Sharon Long Urban Institute; Judith Kasper Johns Hopkins University; Kenneth Manton and P.J. Eric Stallard Duke University; Jennifer Schore Mathematica Policy Research; Catherine Sullivan Brookings; and Bruce Vladeck Health Care Financing Administration.</P><P>Dialogues on Public Policy </P></DIV>