Subjects comprised 241 people aged 65 years and over who had recently been certified as being eligible for the lightest eligibility level and had began using either home help or day care services between April 2007 and October 2008 in a suburban city of Tokyo.
http://www.mhlw.go.jp/toukei/saikin/hw/kaigo/kyufu/2008/11.html The sample for this study was drawn from a database of 834 people aged 65 years and over, living in a suburban city of Tokyo, who had applied to LTCI for the first time from April 2007 to October 2008, and had been newly certified as being eligible for Level 1, the lightest eligibility level.
The governor favored a plan that kept the income eligibility level where it was, leaving out more than 200,000 children.
Nearly five million people would be excluded because they are eligible for Medicaid, Mr. Jennings said, and an additional 20 million "would be excluded because their incomes exceed the eligibility level".
So what is the appropriate eligibility level for this highly successful federal-state program, which has played a major role in reducing the number of uninsured children in this country over the past decade?
The Bush administration arbitrarily imposed onerous new requirements two months ago that made it virtually impossible for New York to raise its eligibility level or for New Jersey to maintain its current level.
Ms. Martinez, who earns $47,000 a year, is covered under her employer's health plan, but her children are covered by New Jersey Family Care; in 2001, the state raised the eligibility level to allow families like hers earning up to 350percentt of the federal poverty level to qualify ($72,275 for a family of four).
The report recommends increasing the number of required affordable units in a development from 25 to 30percentt, and reducing the income eligibility level from 80percentt of the area or state median income (whichever is lower) to 60percentt for half of the affordable units, 80percentt for the rest.
That claim hangs on the extremely flimsy thread that New York — where insurance and living costs are higher than in many other parts of the country — has proposed extending the eligibility level to 400percentt of poverty, or $82,600 for a family of four.
Under the All Healthy Children Act, the income eligibility level would be increased so that more children could get the coverage they need.
