Government grab for your medical coverage
For those that have not had the time (or patience) to watch the politics behind the news, congress and the president have been locked in a fight over our medical care system. Fights have broken out on both sides of the isle trying to get us to believe that their plan is the way to [...]
State budgets crushing disabled
The economy has slowly made it impossible for states to take care of the disabled. With so many people out of work, states are not bringing in money like they were before the recession. Income taxes have gone down drastically as well as non payment of property taxes.
Georgia Hospitals Ignored ADA
For years the disabled have found that the hospitals in and around Atlanta have not been helpful to the disabled. They will not get you a waffle bed while you are in emergency or even after you are admitted. While in emergency they will not give you medication that you need to live.
We are back on the air!
After 9 days in the hospital, I am back home and recuperating. My wife Laura gave everyone a quick rundown of the fun we were having at the hospital. Suffice it to say that without an advocate, there is little chance of you getting out of the hospital any better than you started. In my [...]
Pfizer offers drugs to those that have lost their jobs
Pfizer has created a program for those that have lost their jobs and health insurance to access medications for free. The program allows these individuals to continue their regimen for up to a year to allow the patient to get back to work and insurance. Over 70 Pfizer medications are covered by this plan, including [...]
Disabled lose permission to pick doctors
One of the biggest changes for the newly disabled includes others making decisions for them. While this is a good idea in situations where the person is in the hospital and unconscious, most other times it is a loss of rights. Spinal cord injuries do not always effect the brain, and as such, those without [...]
Leg stimulator may help disabled walk again
Canadamanufacturing.com has a story about a team at Simon Fraser University that have a controller that can make a paralyzed leg work again. Taking messages from the brain and then sending it to various nerves and leg muscles, the person gets a near normal movement in their paralyzed leg. The user needs to only walk [...]
Regenerative medicine coming to your local hospital
Medicalnewstoday.com has a story about the advances in stem cell research and what we can expect to see over time. This type of medicine that will allow doctors to repair areas of damaged tissue that typically is cosidered beyond any medical procedure available now. Cells from your body that can be programmed to turn into [...]
Insurance company demands disabled send wheelchair in before they will repair it
WLTX.com reports that a woman that was involved in a traffic accident with her wheelchair is having problems with the driver’s insurance company. The woman was moving in her wheelchair with her service dog in a crosswalk. It was then that a car drove and struck her, knocking the wheelchair five feet into oncoming traffic. [...]
Insurance company demands disabled send wheelchair in before they will repair it
WLTX.com reports that a woman that was involved in a traffic accident with her wheelchair is having problems with the driver’s insurance company. The woman was moving in her wheelchair with her service dog in a crosswalk. It was then that a car drove and struck her, knocking the wheelchair five feet into oncoming traffic. [...]
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