ERISA and Employee Benefit Law: The Essentials

This book offers the most up-to-date, expert information on the full spectrum of pension and benefit topics — from an easy-to-understand explanation of ERISA and other laws regulating employee benefits plans to detailed descriptions and definitions of private retirement and welfare plans as well as public programs, such as Social Security and Medicare.  


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Medicaid Everyone Can Count On: Public Choices for Equity and Efficiency

Health-care programs for the poor should be based on principles of equity, efficiency, and democracy. Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) fall far short of this ideal. This volume outlines an approach to reform based on equal distribution of benefits across states, efficient allocation of resources, and policy choices that reflect the interests of voters and taxpayers. Thomas W. Grannemann and Mark V. Pauly emphasize controlling and redirecting the flow of resources as the key to meaningful reform.

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Legal Aspects of Elder Care

Planning, providing, and evaluating geriatric care raises a wide variety of legal issues for health and human services practitioners and those who advocate for, develop, and enforce the public policies within which services are delivered. This text offers excerpts from selected statutes and regulations, judicial opinions, and the legal and health care journal literature, as well as commentary on these materials, discussion questions and hypothetical cases, and suggestions of other information sources for the teacher and student. Ideal for courses or programs in health administration, nursing, law, ethics, social work, or gerontology, this text will stimulate class reflection and interaction regarding the meaning and relevance of key legal concepts for the present or future health care professional. For the healthcare professional, it will inform and sensitize those who will deal with older persons about some of the current and potentially emerging legal issues they may encounter in providing services to older patients/clients, and to help them respond intelligently to legal issues and the responsibilities they impose.

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Mastering Elder Law

Mastering Elder Law explains basic topics of concern in the burgeoning field of elder law. The book examines public benefits available to the elderly, retirement systems, age discrimination in employment, wealth transfers, medical decision making (including the ”right to die”), guardianships and conservatorships, durable powers of attorney, long-term care insurance, housing for the elderly, nursing homes, and elder abuse. The book also explores overarching themes of elder law, such as the tension that results when the state is obligated to protect its vulnerable elderly citizens while simultaneously obligated to promote their autonomy to the maximum extent consistent with their abilities. The text is designed to facilitate the novice s understanding of complex topics such as Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.  It discusses relevant statutes and cases, includes many examples, and provides practical observations about the laws that address the problems of the elderly.

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