Disability

Virginia P. Reno; Jerry L. Mashaw; Bill Gradison

doi:10.5771/9780815713487

Summary

A Brookings Institution Press and National Academy for Social Insurance publication

This book presents a cross-cutting assessment of disability income policy in public and private programs in the United States and in European countries. It evaluates whether there is a crisis in disability benefit policy, drawing on an in-depth review of Social Security disability programs by a panel of national experts. In addition to highlighting the panel's findings and recommendations for reform, the authors debate issues in financing and delivering quality health care through Medicare and Medicaid for working-age persons with disabilities, and they examine new developments in how Workers' Compensation organizes and finances cash benefits and health care for workers injured on the job. These developments in benefits and health policy for disabled workers are examined in light of budget constraints and challenges posed by today's rapidly changing labor market. The book concludes with a provocative discussion of "where are the jobs?"--an assessment of growing wage inequality between less skilled and highly skilled workers and the implication of labor market trends for goals of promoting employment among persons with chronic health conditions or disabilities.

The contributors include Monroe Berkowitz, Rutgers University; Richard V. Burkhauser, Syracuse University; John Burton, Rutgers University; Philip de Jong, Institute for Law and Public Policy, Leiden University, the Netherlands; Alan Krueger, Princeton University; Katherine Newman, Harvard University; Van Ooms, Committee on Economic Development; Dallas Salisbury, Employee Benefit Research Institute; Leslie Scallet, Mental Health Policy Resource Center; and the Honorable Bruce C. Vladek, Health Care Financing Administration.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2010
ISBN-Print: 978-0-8157-7405-1
ISBN-Online: 978-0-8157-1348-7
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 202
Product type: Edited Book

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1 Introduction No access Pages 1 - 16
1. Findings of the Disability Policy Panel No access
2. U.S. Disability from a European Perspective No access
3. New Developments in Private Health and Disability Benefits No access
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1. Linking Beneficiaries with Return-to-Work Services No access
2. 1. Comment by Michael J. Graetz No access
  2. Comment by William G. Johnson No access
  3. Comment by Tony Young No access
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1. Confronting the Ambivalence of Disability Policy: Has Push Come to Shove? No access
2. Why Not the Best for the Chronically Ill? No access
3. Managing Care for Persons with Disabilities: The Conflicts between Medicare and Medicaid No access
4. Disability Policy in an Age of Reform No access
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1. Comment by Bruce Barge No access
2. Comment by James N. Ellenberger No access
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1. How Will Labor Market Trends Affect People with Disabilities? No access
2. Inner-City Labor Markets: Where the Jobs Are Not No access
3. A View from Business No access
4. The Clash between Advocacy and Implementation No access
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7 Is Cash Benefit Policy in Conflict with the ADA? No access Pages 185 - 188
8 The Unfinished Business of Disability Policy No access Pages 189 - 194
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