Glad to hear Bernie

[UglyGreed]

mention the disabled in his victory speech last night. Single payer would open up so many options for those who suffer Chronic pain and others who need on going treatments but can not afford to use them.

[bigwillq]

1. Kick (nt)

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

2. The government being able to negotiate with Big Pharma alone would be a giant boon.

My friend's migraine meds are something like $400 a prescription in generic form, and she can go through a prescription in no time flat when she gets a cluster of migraines.

[merrily]

3. I believe those who are unable to work are entitled to Medicare or Medicaid.

[appalachiablue]

5. K&R Disability support & services are on Bernie's list of vital securities for sure.

[FailureToCommunicate]

6. Bernie supports the issues that people with disabilities support and need. And they vote!

And he has had their back for a long long time.

More:
http://progressive.org/news/2014/05/187708/bernie-sanders-help-vets-memorial-day

[postulater]

9. My wife suggested her for Bernie's VP.

[FailureToCommunicate]

17. Tammy Duckworth is near the top of my list also.

Fun, but maybe too early to speculate?

[nxylas]

7. I hate to be the PC police here

But a lot of people with disabilities really hate being referred to as "the disabled". Not trying to tell you off, just making you aware.

[TIME TO PANIC]

11. Not trying to be an ass, but what is the correct term?

[FailureToCommunicate]

16. "PEOPLE with disabilities" has been the long time prefered term, since they are people first...

even though most folks see - but seldom get past- the wheelchair, or the cane, or the tremmors, etc. to connect with the human there in front of them.

The ADA was called the "AMERICANS with Disabilities Act" for a reason.

[TIME TO PANIC]

18. Cool, I think I get it.

They don't want their disability to define them. Thanks for the response.

[FailureToCommunicate]

19. Some may, most do not. Their reactions and preferences are as varied as the people themselves.

It's an ongoing discussion though.

Here is a place to start...from the film "The Best Years of Our Lives"

My father's friend Harold Russell (who won two oscars for the part) playing Homer Parrish in this scene with his stateside girlfriend (who could have been my mother, by her reaction to Homer's self pity at his new condition)

[nxylas]

21. Correct, and I should have said so in my previous post

It was very remiss of me give the "wrong" term but not the "right" one. Sorry.

[dana_b]

15. Just curious

I'm disabled too, but what is it that they prefer to be referred to as?

[nxylas]

20. See above

But as a side note, when I moved to the States in 2002, it came as quite a shock to still see the word "handicapped" still in widespread use. It had long fallen out of favour in my native Britain, and I believe the same is now true in America as well.

[FailureToCommunicate]

22. Easter Seals was still known as Society for Crippled Children when my father worked

there.

We've all come a long way since those days...with a long, bumpy road still ahead.

[Dustlawyer]

8. I have terrible chronic pain from a condition I have and my RX cost, co-pays, deductibles,

and travel for doctor's appointments 2 hours away are extremely high. I am always fighting with doctors and insurance companies over crap. The last was my insurance wanted to approve only one blood glucose monitor, but test strips that only fit a different brand's monitor. It took 3 weeks to get straight. I know Single Payer will have its own challenges. I am sure they will try to put poison pills in it to make people hate it, but that's how our screwed up government works thanks to big money! It will still be an improvement over ACA. The ACA is already starting to have problems with rising costs and higher deductibles to help it fail.

[mikehiggins]

13. Differences? Medicare folks aren't expected to deny claims

This doesn't apply to disability, apparently. Practically everyone I know who applied for disability was turned down the first time around, sometimes repeatedly. Its given rise to a fairly profitable legal cottage industry in which disabled people have to pay to get that which the law says is their rights.

[UglyGreed]

23. Same with Workers Comp

making money off of those who are injured or sick......makes me sick.

[Bluenorthwest]

10. I'm 'insured' and yet all I do is bicker with the Insurer and the doctors and expedite their paper

work as they argue about paying for that which they are in fact contractually obligated to pay for. They take the premiums without any fanfare but any attempt to use what they sell you is a huge fight.

I'm in pain and they are all very concerned about who will pay them an extra $100. It's annoying, it is stupid and all of their processes are expensive wastes of money which we all pay for. We pay for them to fuck with us. Enough is enough.

[Uncle Joe]

12. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, UglyGreed.

[dana_b]

14. I heard that too and was very happy

I've been on SSDI for over three years now due to a back injury and it's not easy but I am so fortunate to have even gotten SSDI. I hope that his Presidency does open Medicare to all who need it.