“im guessing that the large increase in children being classified as disabled relates to the subsequent eligibility for SSI payments ?”
You’re spot on right. Medicare payments are also tied to SSI eligibility for people 64 and under. One of the requirements for eligibilty is that the patient be expected to die. So the psych drug industry simply decides that people are potential suicides, because if they Don’t write them up that way, they are committing
1: Federal Healthcare Fraud by billing medicare
2: Federal Tax Fraud
These drug peddlers are a huge part of Why Social Security is going down in flames. But they’re Far more detestable than being simple financial frauds, FAR more detestable:
http://www.crossroad.to/Quotes/1index.html
Those are only two of the several federal crimes they commit.