Newly disabled in Haiti finding new life difficult
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Falling debris and collapsing building have created hundreds and perhaps thousands of disabled people. Many have have lost more than one limb, making it all but impossible to get around a country that never was very disability friendly. With few building standards to begin with, there are no ramps for wheelchairs and mass transit has no way of dealing with wheelchairs or those that use crutches or walkers to get around. Even those that are close to work or stores are finding movement to be difficult at best because of pot holes in roads and damaged sidewalks. Because Haiti is not a high tech country, most work is done with manual labor, the disabled are typically thrown aside and find that work is impossible to find. There are so many able bodied people looking for work that there is no reason for a businessman to hire a disabled person and deal with setting up a work environment to help that person. The earthquake has multiplied the problem because there are far fewer places to get work and there are now many more disabled people that are looking for work.
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Adaptive driving info
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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 here are more places to check out to help:
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City cracks down on illegal placard use
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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 were not disabled. Money is another big issue for the crack down as people with placards can park anywhere and not pay parking fees.
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The ever increasing doughnut hole
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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 pills and decreases in money coming in to pay for federal programs those on Medicare can expect to pay more for the next three years. After that the new legislation, if it becomes law will eventually catch up with those increases and will start to close the doughnut hole.
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UK: Disabled see worst layoffs in decades
(1 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5) Loading ...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 is no place for them. The disabled that are looking for a new job are finding out that the rolls of unemployed able bodied workers is also at the highest in years. So while they are competing with an ever increasing unemployed group the disabled are running into discrimination from employers that do not want to hire the disabled.
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Older population means increasing disability population
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...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 more expensive than those for younger populations that typically do not see the doctor except for flu conditions. To offset these additional costs governmental agencies are trying to get the disabled back to work but are running into issues with employers. -
Possible changes to Medicare – Senate side
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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 an idea of what is going to be changed and who will have to deal with changes. Note that this document only goes over what the Senate has agreed to – the House bill is quite a bit different and still includes the ability for everyone to pay to enter Medicare with their own money (That was killed off by the insurance companies in the Senate version of the bill).
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New dangers of CT Scans
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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 top of her head to her right temple. This was the exact area that was radiated by the scanner. She hired a lawyer to help her deal with the hospital and the lawyer found two other cases that were almost identical. Presently Cedar Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles is being investigated for giving excess radiation to more than 250 patients. Further research is finding that depending on the type of scan the radiation could be up to 13 times higher than normal.
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Book publishers try to bilk the blind
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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 though these works have been paid for and were made available to libraries and other organizations that make them available to the public. The companies further complain that this treaty would diminish existing laws that protect the works from being pirated or otherwise stolen.
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YouTube now using captioning
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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 the captioning to understand what the people in the videos are saying. The captioning will originally be only in English but will eventually work with some 51 languages.
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