The long-term fallout of gutting long-term care

Plus WEA pays for new voter poll in Superintendent race and some recommended reading

When it comes to value for money, conventional wisdom is the more you pay for something, the more you should get for it.

The 0.58% payroll tax funding Washington’s long-term care program is a good case in point. WA Cares was sold as a new breed of public insurance designed to cover the ruinously high costs of assisted living—at least, in part. Specifical…