The federal government is the largest employer in the United States, and the Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Program is the largest employ...

When the Affordable Care Act was just beginning to be implemented in 2013, the HHS secretary released a report stating the goal of Affordable Healt...

Rising health care cost is a major concern for health policy makers since the 1960s. Statistical analysis of medical cost data is becoming increasi...

The health care reform debate in the United States raises many complex issues including those of coverage, accessibility, cost, accountability, and...

Sweeping changes are being proposed as Canadians examine our health care system. But what are the legal implications of health care reform? In this...

Proposals have been put forward to replace the current paper Medicare cards, which display beneficiaries’ Social Security numbers, with electronica...

As part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), as amended, Congress enacted the "individual mandate", which requires certain indi...

Since 1 January 2014, most individuals have had to maintain health insurance coverage or pay a penalty for noncompliance implemented through the In...

The number of uninsured individuals and the rising cost of health insurance have been long-standing issues. The Patient Protection and Affordable C...

By five months of life, babies can raise their heads when in a supine position on the floor. This common and expected progression in controlling th...

Since 2014, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) has required most individuals to maintain health insurance coverage or potential...

The over-representation of minority students in special education continues to be a persistent and challenging issue in education. This is a compli...

The Medicaid program marked its 50th anniversary on July 30, 2015. The joint federal-state program has grown to be one of the largest sources of he...

The religion clauses of the First Amendment provide that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the fr...

Congressional interest in the laws and processes involved in conditioning U.S. assistance to foreign security forces on human rights grounds has gr...

This book introduces several programs and guidelines that would help to provide housing, employment, and other services to adults with psychiatric ...

For Americans with disabilities, no less than for all other citizens, the opportunity to earn a living and be self-supporting is a universally held...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) -- a federal agency within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) -- and states j...

Medicaid is a significant expenditure for the federal government and the states, with total federal outlays of $310 billion in fiscal year 2014. Th...

The importance of managed care in Medicaid -- under which states contract with managed care organisations (MCOs) to provide a specific set of servi...

Medicaid is a federal-state entitlement program that pays for health care and related services on behalf of certain low-income individuals. Prescri...

Volatility in prices and availability of medical malpractice liability insurance and allegations that insurance companies may have colluded in rais...

This book presents background and an examination of the issues before Congress as it relates to medical malpractice with a focus on the economic is...

Medicare is the nation’s health insurance program for persons aged 65 and older and certain disabled persons. Medicare consists of four distinct pa...

The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 established a voluntary, outpatient prescription drug benefit under Medi...

Through close examination of legal, historical, and medical sources, this volume sheds light on the evolution of U.S. law as it bears on bio-ethica...

This book brings together a number of important issues within the area of mental health and deafness. The book is aimed at mental health profession...

This book brings together a number of important issues within the area of mental health and deafness. The book is aimed at mental health profession...

Since pain management became a speciality in its own right and following the tremendous breakthroughs made by several pioneer researchers, we have ...

Despite a dark history marked by the eugenics movement, increasing numbers of people with disabilities are choosing to become parents. Recent resea...

Historically, American law did not require hospitals to admit patients, despite sporadic legislative attempts to change this practice. In 1986, how...

Social Security (comprising Old-Age and Survivors Insurance (OASI) and Disability Insurance (DI)) is the largest single program in the federal gove...

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) administers and enforces the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) as it pertains to ensuring the availability ...

Most Americans are covered by private health insurance, which they either obtain through employment or purchase individually. Insurance premiums --...

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), as of 2014, changed how insurers determine health insurance premiums and how consumers shop...

Research findings showed that secondary school students in Hong Kong face many challenges. In particular, morbid emphasis on academic excellence ha...

The purpose of this book is to provide practical approaches to designing public reports that make health care performance information clear, meanin...

The United States is the world's largest producer, consumer, and exporter of remanufactured goods. Remanufacturing is an industrial process that re...

In response to concerns over the adequacy of retirement savings, Congress has created incentives to encourage individuals to save more for retireme...

Millions of U.S. workers have little or no savings for retirement, potentially adding to future strains on state and national safety net programs. ...

The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 required the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to update nutrition standards for school lunches and b...

In the last decade, shortages of prescription drugs containing controlled substances, such as narcotics and stimulants, have increased nationwide, ...

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act contains several provisions to encourage employer-sponsored health coverage, particularly among smal...

Social Security is a self-financing program that provides monthly cash benefits to retired or disabled workers and their family members and to the ...

Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program provides benefits to insured workers with disabilities under the full retirement age and their ...

The programs administered by the Social Security Administration (SSA) form the foundation for the nation's social insurance network that has greatl...

The Social Security system is currently generating surplus tax revenues. However, under the intermediate assumptions of the Social Security Board o...

This book provides an overview of the current Social Security special minimum benefit provision workings; explains how the Retirement Earnings Test...