Archive for December, 2009
Adaptive driving info
One of the main topics we try to deliver on is getting information to the disabled that is not readily available from other sites. To that end we periodically add its to the "Useful Goodies" section of the site. If you haven’t checked this out then we strongly recommend you do. In the mean time [...]
City cracks down on illegal placard use
San Francisco California is cracking down on illegal disability placard use by increasing the fine from $100 to $1000 and increased enforcement. The city is doing this because thousands of the placards are either used by people that are not disabled or are fake. Last year alone over 1000 placards were grabbed from people that [...]
The ever increasing doughnut hole
The doughnut hole, or the payment that Medicare patients make when their medications cost more than $2700 a year is going to get bigger. The new bill in Congress is supposed to close the payments over the next 10 years so that all pharmacy payments will be covered by Medicare. However, because of increases in [...]
UK: Disabled see worst layoffs in decades
Five percent of the disabled people that had a job have been laid off in the last 12 months as the ever enveloping recession hits all areas of employment. The job losses put the disabled people at risk in losing their cars and homes forcing them on the street or in nursing homes because there [...]
Older population means increasing disability population
After many warnings about the rapidly aging baby boomer generation were ignored, insurance companies are stating to deal with increasing disabled populations. Canada is especially seeing these changes because of their medical care system that covers everyone in the population regardless of their age or medical condition. Tests and procedures for the disabled are much [...]
Possible changes to Medicare – Senate side
After several months of infighting we now have a bill that the Senate has passed. However up to this point no one outside of congress really has had an idea of what will be changed or who will be effected by this legislation. The folks at Piconetwork have created a PDF document that gives everyone [...]
New dangers of CT Scans
Researchers are finding out that CT Scan systems are emitting more radiation than they should in many hospitals causing patients to experience radiation poisoning type conditions. A school teacher went in for a CT Scan and over the next several weeks found her hair falling out in a arc from her left temple across the [...]
Book publishers try to bilk the blind
Virtually all American companies tied to publishing books either on paper or electronically are fighting a proposal by the World International Property Organization to allow countries to share books that are in electronic format to be used by the blind. According to to the companies, the sharing of documents amounts to stealing their works even [...]
YouTube now using captioning
YouTube, one of the most popular sites for personal videos to be posted will be using an automated captioning service. This will finally allow those that have hearing problems to access the videos on this site. It also allows the disabled to share their videos knowing that other disabled people will be able to read [...]
Testify in congress for pain issues
Those having to deal with the federal government in the payment or remittance of equipment or services have an excellent idea of the red tape that is involved. For those of us with CRPS, it can be almost impossible to get the governmental people on the other end of the phone to understand. They have [...]
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