By abby jean on 2 August, 2010
I ran across a situation recently that required me to figure out how the Medi-Cal program – California’s implementation of the Medicaid program, which provides government-funded health insurance to low-income people – handles people who have received transplants. What was happening was so illogical and ill-conceived that I was astounded to find out that it [...]
Posted in activism, justice, policy, politics, poverty | Tagged Medi-Cal, Medicaid, transplants
By s.e. smith on 8 July, 2010
Despite the attempts at sunny forecasts being made by commentators, it’s pretty clear that we are in a recession, that we have not hit bottom, and that things are not going to get better soon. In the United States, all of the indicators are pointing firmly toward ‘shit is bad, folks.’ The unemployment rate1 is [...]
Posted in class issues, events, policy, politics, poverty | Tagged ADAP, aids, AIDS Drug Assistance Program, Recession
By abby jean on 7 July, 2010
s.e. smith recently wrote about abuse of autistic students in Pennsylvania and the distressing rise in abusive ‘discipline’ for students with disabilities. Ou mentioned a recent study from Delaware that found that students with disabilities are more likely to be suspended for ‘behavior’ problems than students without disabilities. Ou discussed some easy ways that a [...]
Posted in accessibility, justice, politics, poverty, race | Tagged discipline, education, school, suspension
By abby jean on 23 June, 2010
Did you know that being poor puts people at greater risk for disability? And that people with disabilities are more likely to be poor? And that there’s a very strong relationship between poverty and disability, the worst kind of vicious circle? Well, you probably do, especially because we talk about it a lot here, but [...]
Posted in blaming, class issues, intersectionality, policy, poverty
By abby jean on 21 June, 2010
From a post at Change.org: According to a study (pdf) by the Commonwealth Fund, in 2007, 33 percent of working-age women, compared to 25 percent of men, faced medical bills that left them unable to pay for food, rent or heat; caused them to take out a mortgage on their home or take on credit card [...]
Posted in class issues, feminism, gender, intersectionality, policy, poverty
By s.e. smith on 17 June, 2010
Starting in the 1990s, cancer rates in China began rising at an astounding rate. By 2007, cancer was accounting for one in five deaths in China. Similarly rapid increases in cancer rates are being seen in many other nations that are in the process of industrialising. Once considered a disease of the industrialised world, cancer [...]
Posted in class issues, events, global, justice, policy, politics, poverty | Tagged cancer, cancers, child labour, China, environmental issues, environmental policy, factory towns, human rights, industrial pollution, industrialisation, international trade, labour rights, occupational illnesses, pollution
By Annaham on 15 June, 2010
dhobikikutti (DW): This is also needed: A Space In Which To Be Angry And what I have realised is that there is a sixth component to zvi‘s rules, and that is that complaining about and calling out what you do not like does help, slowly, painfully, get rid of it. Every time I see friends [...]
Posted in activism, medical practice, normality, othering, politics, poverty, race, recommended reading, representations, social attitudes | Tagged ableism, anger, anti-racism, appropriation, art, cfs, cfs/me, chronic fatigue syndrome, chronic pain, creative writing, derailing, disabled artists, fandom, identity, media, medical practice, medicine, othering, political media, race, self-help, spina bifida, tv, vaccine, visual art
By s.e. smith on 9 June, 2010
Content warning: This post contains discussions about abuse of people with disabilities, including physical assault and the use of restraints. Last week, a major civil rights lawsuit was settled in Pennsylvania when seven families agreed to accept five million United States Dollars to resolve a case they filed against a teacher and her superiors, arguing [...]
Posted in autonomy, bodies, justice, policy, politics, poverty | Tagged abuse, autism, autistic children, education, restraint
By kaninchenzero on 3 June, 2010
On 1 June 2010, E. Fuller Torrey MD wrote an op-ed column for the New York Times, “Make Kendra’s Law Permanent.” Dr Torrey is the founder of the Treatment Advocacy Center (TAC), a nonprofit group whose sole purpose is to lobby states for the passage of so-called assisted outpatient treatment (AOT) laws like Kendra’s Law [...]
Posted in blaming, class issues, justice, mental health, news, othering, policy, politics, poverty, representations, social attitudes, violence | Tagged accessibility, mental illness, myths and misconceptions, problematic attitudes, social treatment
By s.e. smith on 23 May, 2010
abby jean posted a link this morning on her Tumblr, putting the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe in perspective. While this oil disaster is attracting a great deal of attention in the United States right now thanks to BP’s foot-dragging and prevarications, there isn’t much coverage in the United States on the situation in Nigeria, and there [...]
Posted in events, justice, policy, politics, poverty | Tagged environmental issues, Nigeria
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