A key issue in the debate about reforming the U.S. health care system is how to finance and organize the delivery of longterm care. This volume offers perspectives on several important facets of this problem including the regulation of private longterm care insurance catastrophic outofpocket costs and the use of longterm care and acute care services by the chronically disabled elderly.In addition to the editors the contributors are Lisa Alecxih David Kennell and John Corea LewinVHI Brian Burwell and William Crown SysteMetrics Terry Coughlin Korbin Liu and Sharon Long Urban Institute Judith Kasper Johns Hopkins University Kenneth Manton and P.J. Eric Stallard Duke University Jennifer Schore Mathematica Policy Research Catherine Sullivan Brookings and Bruce Vladeck Health Care Financing Administration.Dialogues on Public Policy