Nationally Chronicare Demonstration Center Act

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Nationally Chronicare Demonstration Center Act - States the finding of the Congress that: (1) long-term care has always been neglected in the development of the Nation's health care delivery system; (2) present programs, such as medicare and medicaid, have neglected to provide adequate coverage for long-term care; (3) any program of national health insurance must address the critical need for coverage of long-term care; (4) most Americans lack direct access to nonhospital health care; (5) society has been largely unwilling to deal with the problems of persons who are unproductive over extended periods because of poor health; (6) outmoded laws or policies limit the realistic use of paramedical personnel, resulting in increased health care costs; and (7) the nursing home industry has been the one health specialty which has accepted the responsibility for developing long-term care through the years. States that it is the purpose of this Act to establish demonstration programs to study and evaluate: (1) the effect of diagnostic services in the detection of chronic conditions; (2) the breakdown of costs and expenditures by acute and chronic conditions; and (3) the breakdown of services …