Posted on 10/12/2007 10:36:22 AM PDT by WBL 1952
If a majority of our country wanted to take care of the disabled, then that’s what we should do.
I wouldn’t fight for it if I was the only one because it would be a losing battle.
However, I stand up for the disabled.
My daughter is disabled, and she is lucky to have parents that have been able to provide for her.
I really feel for the kids and disabled adults who don’t have family to help them.
As a community, I think we should help those in need.
I have little sympathy for illegals or adults who have a healthy body and brain. I don’t think they should get healthcare.
I think that you are wrong about that. Lots of autistic kids were just locked away in institutions in the past.
We’ve made great strides in the way disabled people are treated in this country where instead of being locked away they are educated and become contributing members of our society.
What I think is amazing is how an illegal alien can get more help than a disabled legal citizen of our country gets.
My daughter is disabled. We currently get zero help from the government for her. She qualifies for free and appropriate education, but the public schools failed her.
We pay for private school with a special reading program, speech therapy, occupational therapy, and every other therapy she gets. We do not get any tax breaks for this.
We pay tons of taxes, and we don’t have enough money to pay for all of my daughter’s therapies. Insurance will only pay for 24 speech, physical, and occupational therapy sessions per year. That’s just 1 session every other week. My daughter goes to speech twice a week (and needs more).
Basically, if you pay taxes it means you make enough money to not qualify for any programs for a special needs kid.
I’m not asking for my daughter to be taken care of. However, I would prefer that my tax dollars go to take care of other disabled legal citizens and not to illegal aliens or abled bodied men/women.
Wrong about what?
What I said is true.
true
My former BIL hides a lot of his income using the barter system. I wish he would get busted, but I know he never will.
Considering how government-subsidized health insurance often treats its “beneficiaries”...I’m tempted to say nobody.
i live in apartments and i’ve seen people on medical
go to the doctor 2x week.
one neighbor bragged that it was her 23rd rx of the month (it was the third week).
i don’t see how you could run a national, single-payer system with people who scam the system.
That needs were met. I don’t think disabled people’s needs were met. I think a lot of disabled people were institutionalized in the past.
We’ve moved forward from those times.
You think so but it’s not true. Families took care of their own elderly and disabled because mothers worked at home.
It was a good thing - good for the family.
“However, I would prefer that my tax dollars go to take care of other disabled legal citizens and not to illegal aliens or abled bodied men/women.”
That is what Medicaid and other programs WERE supposed to be for.
Notice I said “WERE”. God bless you and your daughter. Believe me, I know exactly what you are going through and know exactly what you’re talking about. Unless you sell your soul and your daughter’s soul to the government, you are tough out of luck.
If you do a google search on this
“+history +disabled +institutions”
You will find that most disabled people were not taken care of by their families.
Yes, many women worked at home in the past, but you could say the same for men. Women did work, but they had more work to do. Look how easy it is to do laundry today compared to a hundred years ago.
I am very aware of all of this because my daughter has a brain injury. I’ve researched treatment in the past, and treatment now.
My daughter could not talk. In the past, she would have just been shoved aside. In Hitler’s Germany, she would have been killed or experimented on.
In this day and time, she has been rehabilitated, and she actually talks. She is in the regular classroom, and she is extremely gifted at math.
Hopefully, she will continue to do well in school.
(She just had a horrible grand mal seizure last week. The first seizure she has had in over 10 years. We are just hoping that she doesn’t have a seizure disorder that could really negatively affect her quality of life. )
Autistic kids used to be just institutionalized, but now they get therapy and many kids grow up to be very functional. (Sometimes you wouldn’t know they were disabled because they have been rehabilitated so much.)
We were in the public school system for so long, and it did feel like we were selling our soul to the govt.
I’m just glad we had the money to take her out of public school.
Exactly.
The Democrats gussied up a skunk of a program and hoped to sell it as the SCHIP program which helped Graeme Frost.
If Democrats really want to help kids LIKE Graeme Frost
they should pass a bill LIKE the one that helped Graeme Frost.
Big government moves to destroy family in America:
1950-1959
Summary: Government has become the primary payor for nursing home care, Financing is made available for nursing home construction, There is a “boom” in for-profit nursing home construction, The quality of nursing home care becomes a national concern.
Home Care Drops in Popularity
http://elderweb.com/home/book/export/html/2846
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