There is no empirical evidence that the disability system is paying people to be lazy.
They did not even try to understand his disability before saying no.
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No one was looking at disability by the end of the night they were just looking at which countries had the hottest athletes.
As injuries such as the one suffered by Robert Griffin III show, in a business in which one is dependent on their ability to play at the highest athletic level possible , disability insurance is no longer simply an option but a necessity for the majority of players.
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This piece dishonors the Social Security Administration staff who work hard to assure that only people with the most serious disabilities qualify for benefits, the Americans who have such serious medical problems they have no alternative but to seek disability benefits, and your readers who deserve the facts rather than a lot of hot air.
And, on the basics of disability etiquette, so that no one inadvertently offends someone else.
Syed had no criminal history and no history of mental illness or mental disability, said Lt.
The "Supercrip" she argues, is just one more disability stereotype, which is no more real than the image of the victim, or the scrounger.
The libertarian conception of health care as a negative right, however, also misses something important: the degree to which it is a worthy thing for us to pool our resources in order to support those who, through no fault of their own, find themselves with disability or disease.
Congressmen have fought bitterly over whether to extend unemployment benefits, with Republicans arguing that it would blunt incentives to work, yet no one has paid attention to the costly rise in disability rolls.
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No more denying coverage to children based on a preexisting condition or disability.
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The Social Security disability program was created in the 1950s to help Americans who were no longer able to work.
Because making this determination can take hours given that disability claims files often contain hundreds of pages (the VA has no department-wide electronic records system), claims processors are driven to render decisions without necessary medical information.
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Those with a disability are also "more likely to say they think there has been no change in perceptions, or to say they think people's perceptions continue to be negative, " the survey reports.
Extending the permission for OASI to borrow from the disability and Medicare funds would buy a bit of additional time, but probably no more than 18 months.
Unlike other major causes of preventable death and disability, such as tobacco use, injuries, and infectious diseases, there are no exemplar populations in which the obesity epidemic has been reversed by public health measures.
Davies was born with a combined disability in his right leg which limits its functionality and means it has missing bones, and no muscle growth or ligaments.
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However, the GOP assault on our seniors is about going after those who no longer have the ability to help themselves, as they once did, due to advancing age, infirmity and disability.
In addition, it looks like much of their outstanding and unvested stock and option awards will expire unexercised or be forfeited, and no severance arrangements are in place for either executive except in the event of a change of control or death or disability.
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