The recently-announced health and social care levy has not provided enough clarity for insurance providers and won't usher in Long-Term Care insurance, writes SJP's protection expert, Tony Müdd.
As an avid reader of Cover magazine, no really, and as someone having just turned 60 with a potentially vested interest in the issue of social care I was keen to read the article Cost of health and social care reform will be a "bitter pill to swallow". I was struck not necessarily by the article itself, which was a good initial observation of the Health & Social Care paper, but by the diversity of views on the implications of the Government proposals. On the one hand, you had Robert Colville, director of The Centre of Policy Studies, who while giving a cautious welcome stated his dis...
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