Easter Seals and Autism Society: "Health care will improve coverage for people with disabilities!"
Republican-sponsored parents: "Health care will kill people with disabilities!"
Having been active in special needs issues for five years now, I've seen that parents and other advocates can have honest disagreements about the appropriate approaches for treatment, education, and medical care. But the vocal minority who seem to oppose any form of health care reform come across as partisan, intentionally uninformed, and counter-productive to improvements that can benefit the people they most care about.
Read the Associated Press article "Rationing or better care for disabled kids?"
Officials at Easter Seals and the Autism Society say the proposed legislation would improve services for disabled children. And 40 groups that advocate for people with disabilities are on record as supporting the House Democratic bill. Jeff Sell, vice president for advocacy at the Autism Society, who has twin 14-year-old sons with autism, said, "I have seen nothing in the legislation that would lead to rationing of care for children with disabilities." Sell said the bill would actually improve care by eliminating annual and lifetime limits on coverage, as well as coverage exclusions for pre-existing health problems.
Reacting to some parents who claim that a "government takeover" will lead to their children being denied services, Sell added, "I am having a hard time following their logic of jumping to the negative instead of seeing possibilities."
Agree or disagree? I invite your comments.
1 comment:
All I can say, is that I KNOW kids with pre-existing conditions are being denied insurance. That's a FACT. And it's an actual problem that can be solved. As for the fear mongering stuff, well, that's stuff that MIGHT happen. And if it does happen, you better damn well believe we'll all be up in arms over it. But I prefer to deal in what's happening now, rather than some unknown thing in the future.
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