Health Care

An amendment to health care reform legislation would offer people with special needs greater access to in-home attendant services.

In many cases, employees must pay for much-needed care for a dependent relative so that they can continue to work. If this situation sounds familiar, you may qualify for a little-known, but significant tax benefit.

Called "the most important new antidiscrimination law in two decades," the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) began to take effect on November 21, 2009.

A proposal to establish a new national long-term care insurance program for those with disabilities is under attack by the insurance industry.

A federal court in New York recently ruled that the state discriminated against people with mental illnesses by housing approximately 4,300 New York City residents in "adult homes."...

In a recent article, several professors advocate for greater funding for programs that have shown great success in quickly placing people with mental illness in jobs they like and are able to keep.

One of the programs on the cutting edge of community mental health is called "supportive housing," and it incorporates not only housing but social services and medical care as well.

In an apparent violation of federal law, states are increasingly using nursing homes to house young and middle-age people with mental illnesses.

More than ten years after the measure was first proposed, Congress finally passed a law requiring that insurance companies provide enrollees suffering from mental illness with coverage equal to the coverage they would receive for any other type of condition.