NEW YORK: 5 per cent of the population are aging parents looking after disabled adult children.
Every night these parents go to bed with angst in their collective hearts about how their children will be cared for after they die.
They have not previously been a government cost burden, and the government is currently looking to shed social obligations, not take on new costs.
There is a way this can be financed that doesn’t involve the public purse, and which will provide skilled nursing home owners with a lucrative new revenue source…