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This book is a very good reference for how these two very important entitlement programs work in as much as the text sticks to that objective. The authors could not resist intermingling a very biased and at times deceptive opinion into the text. The book bashes social security privatization from the point of view that only government can be trusted to handle a person's pension and that private citizens will only be taken advantage of if ever allowed to invest their own money into greedy corporations - what does this have to do with the text's stated purpose. The same approach was taken of Medicare Prescription D which is referred to as a huge corporate giveaway to the pharmaceuticals because the Medicare Administration was not allowed to "negotiate" prices. The latter is quite deceptive as the government does not ever negotiate prices with the private sector; it regulates prices. Can anyone deny that many doctors refuse accepting medicare-only patients because the prices set by Medicare do not reflect market rates for services? Can anyone deny that Medicare has oft times set prices for services based on budgetary constraints as opposed to seeking the best quality service? These authors certainly can. They also bashed Medicare Prescription D while at the same time having to acknowledge it is very successful but only "for the short run" as they say because in the end the profit motivated pharmaceuticals will raise their prices over time at the expense of seniors. This "government is all good and private sector is all bad lingo" is irrelevant to understanding how the programs themselves work as currently defined. Such commentary belongs in another text devoted to socialist propaganda. My objective as a 42-year old is to understand the entitlements to aid my retiring parents as best I can.

I picked up the 9th edition when I got ready to retire and it saved me a lot of money and confusion and helped tremendously getting thru all the "red" tape. So a couple of years later as I get ready now to approach Medicare I need all the information I can get so I ordered the new 12 edition. Which included tons of updated information.. A recommend for anyone retiring and/or getting ready to go on Medicare

he 12th edition of Attorney Joseph Matthews with Dorothy Matthews Berman's SOCIAL SECURITY, MEDICARE & GOVERNMENT PENSIONS: GET THE MOST OUT OF YOUR RETIREMENT AND MEDICAL BENEFITS provides the latest instructions on getting the most from Medicare, social security and government and veterans benefits. From uncovering benefits and when and how to claim them to qualifying for programs and combining them, this provides an outstanding, basic reference suitable for any public library.

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want to go out and get in a fender-bender myself. We've all seen the famous Driver's Ed movies about the deadly physical and emotional consequences of auto accidents, but rarely has there been such in-depth treatment of the risk management and allocation consequences. I've read many books on insurance (and even reinsurance), but with the exception of Ostrager and Vyskocil's work, none have kept me turning the pages like Phillips and Chippendale. Look for more brilliance from this duo; the Simon and Garfunkel of the no-fault insurance literary community.

While I have long followed the work of Jerry J. Phillips, it is more than obvious to the intelligentsia that Stephen Chippendale is the powerhouse in this dynamic duo. Chippendale takes the reader on a tour de force fandango adventure in the no-fault world, it really is quite first rate. He might be a younger attorney, but that is not about to intimidate that bad boy

I read this monograph years ago and lent it to someone who obviously found it equally fascinating because I've never had it back. If risk is a theme in your work, the ideas in Fischoff and Lichtenstein's book are worth reading. They offer explanations and analysis which seem to match how real people and organisations take risk decisions.END

This is a brilliant and stimulating book. Although it nominally concerns itself with the area of hazard management, policy and technology choices associated with loss of life or limb, it provides a great deal of insight into all forms of risk management and formal decision making.

A very well-researched book, it is obvious that the authors have not only thought long and hard about the subject matter, but have also applied a very disciplined analysis to it. Although the authors are scholars, the book is not necessarily aimed at an academic audience. While challenging, it is still approachable by the lay person.

The text does not recommend any particular methodology for decision making, but instead provides a context within which different decision making methods can be understood and evaluated. It begins by analyzing the problems confronting all acceptable risk decisions, discussing '5 generic complexities' that negatively affect all forms of formal risk analysis. Then the authors provide '7 criteria for evaluating the acceptability of approaches to acceptable risk.' The remainder of the book is spent analyzing approaches to risk management on a spectrum of empirical to formal methods, using their 7 criteria.

I found it an extremely enlightening text with applicability beyond that stated by the authors. It sheds light on many of the 'formal' methods that have been developed for areas of concern to me, specifically in the Information Security field, which often tends towards voodoo analysis based on unstated assumptions and incomplete methodologies. Although it was written over 20 years ago, it still provides a great deal of utility and insight today. One of the text's final recommendations is that the field of Risk Management be made into a formal career choice, with all of the 'formal trappings'. It is a tribute to the foresight of the authors that this is exactly what is happening today, with the emergence of the Chief Risk Officer role, trade journals devoted to the generic concept of risk, and ever greater academic attention and career training in risk management.

The book seems to be easy to read, but still quite comprehensive. The new tendencies of ART solutions are good captured and described in a well understandible manner. Good book for everyone who wants to know main features of ART market without getting himself lost in small mathematical details

In this excellent introduction to risk management, author Erik Banks offers a lucid, clearly written and well-organized overview. He tells readers what risk management is, why it is necessary, how it works and how companies can carry it out most prudently and cost-effectively. He manages to convey the essential information about insurance and reinsurance, the use of capital markets and derivatives, and the application of enterprise risk management concisely. This is a remarkable achievement. Most books on insurance bog down in jargon and details, while most books on derivatives are unnecessarily complicated and dense. This one - offered by the Wiley Finance Series - is neither. Although not exactly beach reading, it's about as accessible as any book on this subject could possibly be. We recommend it highly to executives and investors.

If you are a healthcare consumer you can't afford not to read this book. Author Michael Townes Watson uses actual accounts from real cases to inform the reader of injustices that are being carried out in what is described as a "stealth-like" fashion. The book sends a strong message that if we as a nation do not become more aware and informed; then more and more of us are going to be adversely affected by the lawmakers that are currently attempting to pass bills that prevent victims of medical malpractice from receiving the aid of the justice system. The book is equally entertaining as it is informative, containing facts about widely publicized cases and dispelling the myths about their outcomes. A book on this topic could have the potential to be extremely boring, but this one was anything but. Definitely recommend.

One of the principle causes of death and injury in the United States today is the widespread reality of doctors who are too rushed to give proper attention to their patients. The haste is created by the pressure upon physicians by insurance companies control care decision, inadequate information about new drugs, a rigid healthcare framework, the insurance and pharmaceutical company financed corruption of the justice system from the congress to the courthouse. America's Tunnel Vision: How Insurance Companies' Propaganda Is Corrupting Medicine And Law by Michael Townes Watson (a former Adjunct Professor of Medical Malpractice law, a practitioner in Law and Medicine for more than thirty years, and the author of four law books and numerous articles on legal/medical issues) is a clarion call to make right what has gone wrong in the medical and judicial systems. In an era when hospital error kills more people than any form of cancer (except lung cancer), when you are five times ore likely to be injured in a hospital than when driving your car, when insurance companies think your life is worth less if you are hurt by a doctor than if you are hurt by a drunk driver, and when insurance companies have taken over the practice of medicine and are now in the active process of taking over the justice system, it's only men and women like Michael Watson and books like America's Tunnel Vision that can hope to awaken the general public to what is going on and to motivate them to corrective action. Simply stated, America's Tunnel Vision is "must" reading for all health care and medical reform activists, and needs to be placed in the Social Issues reference collections of every community and academic library in the country.

I loved this book by Jim Silver. It kept me up all night turning page after page to see what would happen next! His writing is very descriptive and detailed. No chapter is slow or boring. Every one is as good as the last. Hope Jim writes another novel very soon.

I found this book to be a page turner. I normally do not read these tyoes of stories, but a friend gave it to me and I could not put it down. The descriptions are amazing, I felt like I was in the book. The suspense kept me on the edge of my seat. I highly recommend this book to anyone and I also loved his 2nd book- Kll Zone. Jim Silver is a new talent and I hope that we can expect the same if not better quality of work from him in the future.

This book was required for a course on Corporate Finance. The focus, however, is on the psychological aspects of corporate financial decision-making, resulting in no useful formulae or job aids. The take-away from this book is that financial managers use intuition and heuristics as much and as generally successfully as by NPV analysis which constitute the traditional approach. I would not recommend this book as a text.

This book is very informative and easy to read. It is written in a way that won't bore you at all. I have tried to read several books about behavioral finance but I found out they're either too long or boring which made me lose interest in the first chapter. Though, with this book, it didn't happen as it is well-written and very interesting. The examples, given to illustrate the points were quite interesting and simple to understand. I very much enjoyed reading about behavioral finance and the biases that managers, investors and financial analysts have when making their decisions. The book is divided into 11 chapters. I highly recommend this books for people who want to know more about behavioral finance.

1. Behavioral Foundations
2. Valuation
3. Capital Budgeting
4. Perceptions about Risk & Return.
5. Inefficient Markets and Corporate Decisions
6. Capital Structure
7. Dividend Policy
8. Agency Conflicts and Corporate Governance
9. Group Process
10. Mergers & Acquisitions
11. Applications of Real-option techniques to Capital Budgeting and Capital Structure(only available at the book's site)

Clark's book concerns the life insurance business in England, primarily in the 1700s. He's researched company records and presented very hard data about the business. Moreover, the links between life insurance, the financial industry, general business conditions, and social attitudes about insurance are well explored. The focus on England is not limiting, as England was the only country with meaningful life insurance in the 1700s. (Readers would likely also appreciate Zelizer's "Morals and Markets.") I am extremely grateful for the information in Clark's book.

Clark is a pleasure to read. It's a delight to find a book using words such as chiliasm, advowson, exiguous, and empyrean.

When a friend of mine recently earned his PhD (in systematic theology), a party feting his achievement called for oral excerpting from his colleagues' works whose knowledge, from many disciplines, was likewise piled higher and deeper. Geoffrey Clark's Betting on Lives: The Culture of Life Insurance in England, 1695-1775, particularly caught my ear, and the author was kind enough to provide me a copy of the Manchester University Press monograph. What an interesting study! Clark manages both to describe the factual development of life insurance societies and companies and - I believe more interestingly - to present the social and literary context that both described and led to this development. Clark writes very well, and his broad eye takes him beyond narrative fact by including several eighteenth-century illustrations - playing cards, advertisements for "Lottery Insurance" for both the "Elite" and "Laboring Classes" - as well as quotes from contemporary literature. Although primarily aimed at professional historians like himself, Clark's work both educated and entertained this general reader. Even were Geoffrey not a personal friend, I would recommend this insightful work.

The book is quite informative, gave you some idea about the "evolution" of American Health Care system, stories from all sides. However, the author probably has written the book in a very emotional state, I found the book rather disorganized and sometimes miss the main point of the chapters.

The newly updated secondly edition of The Buck Stops Nowhere: Why America's Health Care Is All Dollars And No Sense by skilled and experienced analyst Kathleen O'Connor is a sharply insightful and critically important wake-up call identifying the manifold flaws in America's health care industry, and the problems that beset the struggle for affordable, high-quality health care. Individual chapters knowledgeably cover the real core mechanics of why some people get insurance and other people don't; the greed that interferes with efforts for quality coverage; the rapid changes besetting the industry that must be addressed quickly in view of the looming Baby Boom Generation's advancement into Senior Citizenry, and so much more. An excellent overview of a compelling modern-day issue that directly affects all Americans, The Buck Stops Nowhere should be required reading for any citizen and all politicians having to grapple with our present and rapidly worsening national health care crisis.

I bought this book for my girlfriend because she was recently outplaced by a company buyout. I wanted to know more about what she does so that I could help her find a job with my network. It speaks in terms that we can all identify with and gave me a better understanding of what to look for.

The book is pretty much what the title says. Don't expect the book to have in-depth coverage of careers included in the book. Note that numerical facts in the book will lose relevance as the book ages. Most outlook of the book goes up to 2014.

The book is best suited for people who wants to know what is out there. Anyone who needs in-depth coverage of a certain career will need some other reference materials. Most of the materials in the book can be obtained through internet research, but it saves a lot of time to have all the information in one source.