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Post by mnquad07 on Apr 2, 2024 17:49:26 GMT -5
one day you are fine and dandy and BOOM!! Wake up injured and everything changes instantly. A lot of problems is financial problems. I've learned going on disability, due to paralysis from the shoulders down at a young age pretty much makes you poor. have you seriously looked up what a vehicle costs? It's ridiculous. Then, the common transportation companies that will pick you up and bring you places is strictly Dr. appointments for insurance to help out. Of course, everyone's area and situation is different... I know that. But, going anywhere else other than doctors appointments you have to figure it out yourself. I don't know maybe I'm just ranting here.
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loveparas
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Post by loveparas on Apr 2, 2024 19:18:30 GMT -5
one day you are fine and dandy and BOOM!! Wake up injured and everything changes instantly. A lot of problems is financial problems. I've learned going on disability, due to paralysis from the shoulders down at a young age pretty much makes you poor. have you seriously looked up what a vehicle costs? It's ridiculous. Then, the common transportation companies that will pick you up and bring you places is strictly Dr. appointments for insurance to help out. Of course, everyone's area and situation is different... I know that. But, going anywhere else other than doctors appointments you have to figure it out yourself. I don't know maybe I'm just ranting here. I believe sometimes it's ok to rant! This are some things I've heard about pwd for a long while of being a dev and it's infuriating to not see progress in stuff like this. |
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Post by dutchdev on Apr 3, 2024 1:58:36 GMT -5
one day you are fine and dandy and BOOM!! Wake up injured and everything changes instantly. A lot of problems is financial problems. I've learned going on disability, due to paralysis from the shoulders down at a young age pretty much makes you poor. have you seriously looked up what a vehicle costs? It's ridiculous. Then, the common transportation companies that will pick you up and bring you places is strictly Dr. appointments for insurance to help out. Of course, everyone's area and situation is different... I know that. But, going anywhere else other than doctors appointments you have to figure it out yourself. I don't know maybe I'm just ranting here. You are right, it isn't fair, we have a pretty cool local disability advocate that always points out she has to pay the "disability fee" on everything she does. She has a job, is my age and based on education and job to my estimation makes a decent income and would have been financially fine if it wasn't for her disability. Even if all disability related costs are covered, never being able to pick the cheap option makes live more expensive. |
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Post by highhands89 on Apr 7, 2024 21:46:55 GMT -5
one day you are fine and dandy and BOOM!! Wake up injured and everything changes instantly. A lot of problems is financial problems. I've learned going on disability, due to paralysis from the shoulders down at a young age pretty much makes you poor. have you seriously looked up what a vehicle costs? It's ridiculous. Then, the common transportation companies that will pick you up and bring you places is strictly Dr. appointments for insurance to help out. Of course, everyone's area and situation is different... I know that. But, going anywhere else other than doctors appointments you have to figure it out yourself. I don't know maybe I'm just ranting here. You are right, it isn't fair, we have a pretty cool local disability advocate that always points out she has to pay the "disability fee" on everything she does. She has a job, is my age and based on education and job to my estimation makes a decent income and would have been financially fine if it wasn't for her disability. Even if all disability related costs are covered, never being able to pick the cheap option makes live more expensive. I have said something similar as your advocate friend for years. I call it the disability tax. I even went so far as to write an entire post about on my blog. |
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Post by kwhi13 on Apr 11, 2024 10:35:28 GMT -5
I hear you. People in the European social democracies have a much higher standard of living due to social insurance programs that cover most things from medical care, to to care giving to a stipend of sexual surrogacy. I am comfortably retired on Medicare, the only fear I have is extensive illness that requires expensive pharma-like cancer-or 24 hour nursing which I am aware many require at present. My thought is being disabled is tough anywhere, and tougher in America. Cheers!
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Post by mnquad07 on Apr 11, 2024 13:20:38 GMT -5
I hear you. People in the European social democracies have a much higher standard of living due to social insurance programs that cover most things from medical care, to to care giving to a stipend of sexual surrogacy. I am comfortably retired on Medicare, the only fear I have is extensive illness that requires expensive pharma-like cancer-or 24 hour nursing which I am aware many require at present. My thought is being disabled is tough anywhere, and tougher in America. Cheers! and aging with disability makes the equivalent to older age more younger than anything. That made sense in my head |
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highhands89
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Post by highhands89 on Apr 11, 2024 18:14:10 GMT -5
I just had to spend $450 on a new adaptive mouse. Can't dispute the existence of the Disability Tax
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Post by dutchdev on Apr 18, 2024 11:02:58 GMT -5
I hear you. People in the European social democracies have a much higher standard of living due to social insurance programs that cover most things from medical care, to to care giving to a stipend of sexual surrogacy. I am comfortably retired on Medicare, the only fear I have is extensive illness that requires expensive pharma-like cancer-or 24 hour nursing which I am aware many require at present. My thought is being disabled is tough anywhere, and tougher in America. Cheers! Don’t overestimate the European social safety nets, it is still hard. Social security is basically minimum wage, and while a lot if not all of medical expenses are covered there are plenty of examples of people falling through the cracks or simply having to pay “the disability tax”. While already living on the bare minimum. Besides (at least in the Netherlands) almost everything is paid for on a sliding scale, which means making more money will not immediately result in more money in your pocket. |
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Post by kwhi13 on Apr 19, 2024 2:42:29 GMT -5
Still, it’s better than here…
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