The rising cost of long term care insurance has become a vexing issue for Massachusetts and the country as a whole.
Long Term Care Insurance, Part 2: The Cost of Coverage
Private insurance can be a helpful tool to defray some of the cost of long term care. However, the cost of long term care insurance has also risen.
Learning from Maine
Recently, many have celebrated Maine’s achievement of 100,000 heat pumps installed. It’s really a good-news/bad-news story.
Tracking climate progress
We cannot assume that we are materially reducing greenhouse gas emissions just by putting heat pumps into homes at scale. Additional metrics are necessary to assure that we are benefitting the climate. Our climate report card should include those metrics.
Funding building decarbonization
I hope that the Climate Chief’s call for an economic analysis leads to a thorough review of the resources required to achieve our goals for decarbonization of existing buildings.
Energy conservation expectations
In existing homes, we are likely to have to get most of our carbon reductions by decarbonizing heating systems as opposed to improving building envelopes.