ObamaCare: Victory for Elderly, Less for Near Elderly

In upholding the President Obama's health reform law, the Affordable Care Act,  the Supreme Court ensured the preservation and continued roll-out of improvements and protections for older adults.  These improvements include the extension of  Medicaid’s spousal impoverishment protections to those seeking long-term care in the community, financial incentives for states to keep long-term care recipients out of institutions, the gradual closing of Medicare  Part D’s infamous “doughnut hole,” expanded access to preventive services for Medicare beneficiaries, and the Elder Justice Act. The Court did, however, scale back the Medicaid portion of the law, which could mean that fewer near-elderly will…

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