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By R.W. Greene — Employers are facing a massive elder care health crisis in coming years — but even if they are aware of the problem, few are doing anything about it. The crisis is the toll that elder care — looking after one’s aging parents — is placing on the nation’s workforce. The U.S. is […]
Continue reading …Caregivers and Work: More working people provide full- or part-time caregiver duties for a loved one than ever before. Here’s a look at some facts about this major life responsibility and the realities of the working world. Facts About Caregivers o Two-thirds are women. o Studies show female caregivers are more likely than males to […]
Continue reading …Caregiver protection laws are rare. As of 2012, only four states—Alaska, Connecticut, New Jersey and Oregon, plus the District of Columbia—have laws over and above federal laws protecting family caregivers and those proving elder care. The AARP report says additions to workplace discrimination laws are necessary to help family caregivers. The AARP recommends the following changes […]
Continue reading …Workplace discrimination against caregivers is becoming commonplace as more employees must care for aging parents, a new report from the AARP, an advocacy group of older Americans. The report, “Protecting Family Caregivers from Employment Discrimination,” identifies workplace discrimination against workers with elder care responsibilities as an emerging trend. The report also highlights the limited legal […]
Continue reading …By Mary Agnes Carey, KHN Staff Writer– The Supreme Court Thursday, 28 June 2012, upheld the 2010 federal health care reform law, dismissing the challenge by states to the law’s requirement that individuals get insurance. The justices, however, did give states the right to opt out of a critical provision requiring them to expand Medicaid […]
Continue reading …By RUSS MITCHELL, KHN Staff Writer– With the health care law upheld by the Supreme Court, the state that boasts the largest number of uninsured is bent on losing that distinction. Peter Lee, charged with creating California’s online state insurance market, says his goal is to make shopping for health insurance as easy “as buying […]
Continue reading …By JAY HANCOCK, KHN Staff Writer– Everybody agreed hospitals would be the biggest business losers if the Supreme Court overthrew the health care reform act. But the ruling that preserves most of the law — along with the promise of billions in extra hospital revenue — raises new problems for the industry. Hospital bosses applauded and […]
Continue reading …By PHIL GALEWITZ and MARILYN WERBER SERAFINI, KHN Staff Writers– The Supreme Court has given states a way out of expanding their Medicaid programs under the health law, and top Republican officials in several states were quick to say they want to take that step. But governors will be under strong pressure to take the […]
Continue reading …Tuesday, 17 April is Equal Pay Day. This date symbolizes how far women in the United States must work into 2012 to earn what men doing similar work earned in 2011. When the President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act in 1963, women were earning an average of 59 cents on the dollar compared to […]
Continue reading …By JULIE APPLEBY, KHN Staff Writer– Once a year, employees of the Swiss Village Retirement Community in Berne, Ind., have a checkup that will help determine how much they pay for health coverage. Those who don’t smoke, aren’t obese and whose blood pressure and cholesterol fall below specific levels get to shave as much as $2,000 […]
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