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Multiple sclerosis and it’s Financial Burden:Comments on the Guardian’podcast

San Jose Care Resource Guide:The Guardian brings us a podcast on the worsening financial  burden of  MSers. True, this is about NHS in England, but the austerity tidal wave has certainly hit the US too. For starters, look at our recent post on the cuts in California social and health safety net  by Gov. Brown (Click Here for that post)

San Jose Care Resource Guide: The guardian’s podcast is not going to make MSers feel better about their plight. Maybe it could emphasize the need to advocate for them and their family caregivers. Here is the link to the ‘cast

San Jose Care Resource Guide:  The recent change in the US Health Care system has emphasized dilution of the concept of disability and included questionnable ills in the society’s network. Just check out some of our previous posts:

• Ways The New Health Law May Affect You in 2011 (KHN)
• Health Care Law Should Help With Jail Inmate Treatment (thecrimereport)
• Is your government draining money away from the benefits of the highly disabled?

We must force the government to distinguish between true the true hardship of the auto-immune diseases such as Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinsons’,  Rheumatoid Arthritis, Lupus as well as all the forms of Cancers and Spinal cord Injury from more benign ills. The culprit? Here you have it :

“SUMMARY OF KEY PROVISIONS: EEOC’S NOTICE OF PROPOSED RULEMAKING (NPRM) TO IMPLEMENT THE ADA AMENDMENTS ACT OF 2008 (ADAAA)”

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Is your government draining money away from the benefits of the highly disabled?

SJCRG: To know  what has happened, we will quote from this link at Occupational Health and Safety site

“….Since the enactment of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) twenty years ago, the definition of “disability” has shifted from an underlying physical or mental condition to a complex interaction between a person and his or her environment….”

The full extent of the difference is summarized in this text from the EEOC: “SUMMARY OF KEY PROVISIONS: EEOC’S NOTICE OF PROPOSED RULEMAKING (NPRM) TO IMPLEMENT THE ADA AMENDMENTS ACT OF 2008 (ADAAA)”

Bottom line the definition of disability is now much broader and the burden of proof much lighter: good or bad.Think in terms of a shrinking economy, more people entitled, with less money to go around.

We believe the truly disabled, i.e. , those who fit  the strictest definition, have been short changed. A typical impact can be seen in our post on the wheelchairhealth site on the greater difficulty that highly disabled have to get the high tech power wheelchair they need!

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