Health Care

On April 4, 2009 ASNP Charter Member, Mark Biernath, joined other guests, Heidi J. Moore and Kendra & David Goerke to talk about Financial Planning For Special Needs Children.

Disability rights groups are calling for the inclusion of long-term care services and supports in health reform.

Ten years after a landmark Supreme Court ruling granted people with disabilities greater access to care outside of institutional settings, hundreds of thousands of people who could live happy, productive lives in their communities still find themselves trapped in nursing...

If you've decided to hire a caregiver for a person with special needs, you'll need to interview the candidates. Here are eleven important questions to ask.

The U.S. Supreme Court recently heard three days of oral arguments in a series of cases challenging the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. If the Supreme Court throws out all or part of the law,...

The Obama administration may be on the brink of scuttling a new national long-term care insurance program that was part of the health reform law.

A little-publicized effect of the health care legislation the House of Representatives recently passed is its potential impact on vital health services that special education students receive.  ...

More states are choosing to expand Medicaid services for people with low-incomes and the Department of Health and Human Services has just released regulations to ensure that people with disabilities will receive the coverage they need from private health insurers.

President Obama has named Henry Claypool, Executive Vice-President of the American Association of People with Disabilities, as a member of the national Commission on Long-Term Care, giving disability advocates a voice on the panel that will recommend changes to the...