Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Hearings held.
This bill creates a 12-member commission to study long-term care in America and send Congress yearly recommendations on topics like paying for care, supporting caregivers, and helping people age at home. The commission would last 10 years but has no power to make laws or force changes. If this passes, a group of experts would study the problem and suggest solutions, but Congress would still have to act separately on any of those suggestions.
About 53 million Americans already provide unpaid care to family members, and the aging population will push that number higher. This bill would create a dedicated team of experts to study how the country pays for and delivers long-term care , but it wouldn't change anything on its own.