Disability : Challenges for Social Insurance, Health Care Financing, and Labor Market Policy Book

1	Introduction	1
2	Disability Benefits Policy: Is There a Crisis?	17
	Findings of the Disability Policy Panel	17
	U.S. Disability from a European Perspective	28
	New Developments in Private Health and Disability Benefits	35
3	Encouraging Work through Cash Benefits Policy: New Proposals	41
	Linking Beneficiaries with Return-to-Work Services	41
	The Disabled Worker Tax Credit	47
	Comment	66
	Comment	71
	Comment	77
4	Challenges in Medicare and Medicaid for Persons with Disabilities	83
	Confronting the Ambivalence of Disability Policy: Has Push Come to Shove?	83
	Why Not the Best for the Chronically Ill?	101
	Managing Care for Persons with Disabilities: The Conflicts between Medicare and Medicaid	112
	Disability Policy in an Age of Reform	118
5	Workers' Compensation, Twenty-Four-Hour Coverage, and Managed Care	129
	Comment	150
	Comment	153
6	Alternatives to Income Support: Where Are the Jobs?	163
	How Will Labor Market Trends Affect People with Disabilities?	163
	Inner-City Labor Markets: Where the Jobs Are Not	169
	A View from Business	175
	The Clash between Advocacy and Implementation	179
7	Is Cash Benefit Policy in Conflict with the ADA?	185
8	The Unfinished Business of Disability Policy	189
	Contributors	195
	Index	197