{"id":5304,"date":"2005-10-27T11:05:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-27T15:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/2005-10-1027-001\/"},"modified":"2018-05-09T18:47:21","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T22:47:21","slug":"2005-10-1027-001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/2005-10-1027-001\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas City Briefing Sparks Drive to Keep America from Going Broke; Long-Term Care Insurance the Key"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Leaders Offer Concrete Steps for Government and Industry<\/b><\/p>\n<p> KANSAS CITY, MO (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) &#8212; As 77 million baby boomers approach retirement, America faces budget-busting costs for long-term care. &#8220;Somebody is going to go broke &#8212; Uncle Sam, the states, or millions of citizens &#8212; unless we act now,&#8221; says Cameron Truesdell, a long-term care pioneer. He is CEO of LTC Financial Partners LLC, host of an industry-government briefing in Kansas City, MO, October 17.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/mediaboom\/CamTruesdell-72dpi.jpg\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"20\">The event was covered by WDAF-TV Fox 4, NPR station KCUR, the Kansas City Star, and the Examiner. Audio-visual coverage is available at www.eranova.com\/LTCFP\/news\/kc-briefing. <\/p>\n<p> <i>*(Photo Caption: Cameron Truesdell.)<\/i><\/p>\n<p> It includes &#8212; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> \t* A video of the briefing&#8217;s highlights, with statements by Truesdell; Christopher D. Perna, President and COO of MedAmerica Insurance Company; and Dan Cahn, who heads the newly-announced LTC Outreach and Education Program.<\/p>\n<p> \t* An NPR interview on the looming financial crisis, featuring Cameron Truesdell.<\/p>\n<p> \t* An NPR interview on industry solutions, featuring Christopher Perna.<\/p>\n<p> \t* An audio statement on corporate moves that can save billions, featuring Dan Cahn.<\/p>\n<p> \t* An NPR interview on what&#8217;s needed from government, featuring Richard W. Samson, <br \/> \tDirector of EraNova Institute, co-organizer of the briefing with LTC Financial Partners, LLC. \t<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> The leaders support legislation, sponsored by more than 40 members of Congress, for tax incentives to help more Americans afford long-term care insurance.<\/p>\n<p>News issued by: LTC Financial Partners LLC<\/p>\n<p> # # # <\/p>\n<p><small>Original Story ID:  (944) :: 2005-10-1027-001<\/small><\/p>\n<p><small>Original Keywords: long term care insurance, health insurance, government, medicaid, kansas city, ltc, long term care, retirement, estate planning, financial planning LTC Financial Partners LLC   <\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KANSAS CITY, MO &#8211; Oct. 27 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) &#8212; As 77 million baby boomers approach retirement, America faces budget-busting costs for long-term care. &#8216;Somebody is going to go broke &#8212; Uncle Sam, the states, or millions of citizens &#8212; unless we act now,&#8217; says Cameron Truesdell, a long-term care pioneer. He is CEO of LTC Financial Partners LLC, host of an industry-government briefing in Kansas City, MO, October 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9780,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance-news","category-insurance-news","has-post-title","has-post-date","no-post-category","no-post-tag","no-post-comment","has-post-author"],"acf":[],"views":2752,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9780"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}