 ABA Commission on
Law and
Aging
Bifocal
Newsletter, Vol. 31, No. 1
September-October 2009
Abuse
80-year-old
wife puts husband in junkyard
By Karen Azaiza, NBC
Philadelphia
Exploiting
their elders: Crimes against aging parents rise as economy
falters
By Kym Klass, Montgomery
Advertiser
Newspaper
investigates dangerous mix of nursing homes and psychotropic
drugs
Kaiser Health News
Aging
Judges
for life: How aging affects rulings
ABA
Now
The
calorie-restriction experiment
By Jon Gertner, The
New York Times
Elder Care
State
changes rules for in-home care services
County experts:
New state requirements can't be met in time
By Leslie
Griffy, thecalinfornian.com
Taking
care of parents also means taking care of finances
By
Walecia Konrad, The New York Times
Elder Law
Hearings
The Oversight of Government
Management, the Federal Workforce and the District of Columbia
Subcommittee, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental
Affairs Committee, and the Senate Aging Committee held a joint
hearing titled “Sticker Shock: What Is the True Cost of
Federal Long-Term-Care Insurance?” 10/14/09, 2:30 pm, 342
Dirksen.
Bills Introduced
S 1821 (Kohl, D-WI), to
protect seniors in the United States from elder abuse by
establishing specialized elder abuse prosecution and research
programs and activities to aid victims of elder abuse, to
provide training to prosecutors and other law enforcement
related to elder abuse prevention and protection, and to
establish programs that provide for emergency crisis response
teams to combat elder abuse; to Judiciary. S10635, CR
10/21/09.
Health/Healthcare
ABC
news poll: more Americans prefer public option to bipartisan
bill
Senior White House Correspondent Jake Tapper, ABC
News
Get
back to the American way to solve healthcare
By Jason
Beans, Rising Medical Solutions
HCG
diet was largely discredited long ago
Doctors
comparing weight-loss results with HCG injections versus a
placebo failed to produce evidence that the hormone was
anything special.
By Elena Conis, Los Angeles
Times
Hospitals
find way to make care
cheaper – make it better
By
Thomas M. Burton, The Wall Street Journal
It's
alive! End-of-life counseling in health bill
By Ricardo
Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press
Source:
Google
'Public
option' politics
The government-run option is a
good compromise, but lawmakers avoided dealing with its true
cost.
Los Angeles Times
States
of personal privilege
By Kimberly A. Strassel, The
Wall Street Journal |
Health Law
Suit
filed against state on behalf of 400,000 Michigan
Medicaid-dependents denied access to dental
healthcare
Reuters, Source: Dykema
The
war on specialists
ObamaCare punishes cardiology and
oncology to finance GPs.
The Wall Street Journal
Health Law
Bills Introduced
HR 3962 (Dingell, D-MI), to
provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and
reduce the growth in health care spending; to Energy and
Commerce. H12140, CR 10/29/09.
S 1796 (Baucus, D-MT), to provide affordable, quality
health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health
care spending; to Finance; placed on the calendar. S10520, CR
10/19/09.
HR 3799 (Johnson, D-GA), to amend Title XVIII of the Social
Security Act to improve prescription drug coverage under
Medicare Part D, to amend the Public Health Service Act, the
Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, and to improve prescription
drug coverage under private health insurance; to Energy and
Commerce.
H11297, CR 10/13/09.
HR 3776 (Graves, R-MO), to amend the Internal Revenue Code
of 1986 to provide a 100 percent deduction for the health
insurance costs of individuals; to Ways and Means. H11166, CR
10/8/09.
Committee Action
On 10/13/09, the Senate
Finance Committee approved, by a 14-9 vote, the committee's
version of the health care reform bill.
Medicare/Medicaid
HHS:
Anti-fraud summit could help reduce wasteful Medicare,
Medicaid spending
McKnights Long-Term Care
News
Medicaid
and National Health Reform
By Sara Rosenbaum, The
New England Journal of Medicine
Medicare
private plans may see more regulation
Revisions to
Medicare Advantage and Part D policies are geared to protect
beneficiaries and make choosing a plan easier.
By Chris
Silva, amednews
Texas
a hotbed as authorities crack down on Medicare, Medicaid
fraud
By Dianna Hunt, Star-Telegram
US
House Democrats offer Medicare physician payment fix
By
Patrick Yoest, Dow Jones Newswires,
The Wall
Street Journal
Retirement
Making
Your Nest Egg Last a Lifetime
By Anthony Webb, Center
for Retirement Research at Boston College
Social Security
A
drop in the wrong bucket
By David Leonhardt, The
New York Times
Seniors
can boost their Social Security benefits by
're-retiring'
Kathy M. Kristof, Los Angeles
Times
Potpourri
Drug
firms see poorer nations as sales cure
By Avery
Johnson, The Wall Street Journal
In
Boston race, an ageless truth: senior voters
key
Flaherty, Menino in all-out push
The Boston
Globe
Retirement
chain seeks fresh cash infusion
By Anton Troianovski,
The Wall Street Journal
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