Why are so many Americans on disability?

[Anonymous]

The obesity crisis quickly becomes an SES and parenting issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why not get a job and work? There are quadriplegics on ventilators who work. There are people with severe multiple sclerosis who don't demand our tax dollar support them. Why can't you work?

Some people make a sport out of gaming the system for payouts. Some doctors do too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why not get a job and work? There are quadriplegics on ventilators who work. There are people with severe multiple sclerosis who don't demand our tax dollar support them. Why can't you work?

Why not first ask why Americans are the sickest people in the world?

Why has our food supply been poisoned?

Profit. Greed. It's capitalism run amok.

No, I think it’s more that lobbyists are allowed to wine and dine our politicians who vote for laws in favor Blackrock corporations, including pharmaceutical manufacturers.

When politicians are nice and drunk, the place swoons with underaged girls. It’s the oldest trick in Washington: honey pot blackmail. Jeffery Epstein was king. But it didn’t go away at all.

Term limits would certainly put a dent in the scheme.

[Anonymous]

Because it’s free money that never stops.

[Anonymous]

Because they get injured at work, run out of money trying to pay medical bills, and are then fired by their job when they aren't 100% anymore.

There is no Universal Health Care in the US, and employers have the upper hand AND control of your health insurance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because they get injured at work, run out of money trying to pay medical bills, and are then fired by their job when they aren't 100% anymore.

There is no Universal Health Care in the US, and employers have the upper hand AND control of your health insurance.

Then they have a gap in employment and no one will hire them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because they get injured at work, run out of money trying to pay medical bills, and are then fired by their job when they aren't 100% anymore.

There is no Universal Health Care in the US, and employers have the upper hand AND control of your health insurance.

You can always negotiate a cash pay uninsured price. Illegals do it all the time and many places post that price in the waiting room.

What would change with govt level health insurance?

They wouldn’t be disabled and would choose find a suitable job in less than a years time instead?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because it’s free money that never stops.

This

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because they get injured at work, run out of money trying to pay medical bills, and are then fired by their job when they aren't 100% anymore.

There is no Universal Health Care in the US, and employers have the upper hand AND control of your health insurance.

Then they have a gap in employment and no one will hire them.

In what job does a year off hurt things? Like a senior white collar leadership role they had to fill? Or you lost all your clients? Or you have a labor wage plug & play job and are just fine?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because it’s free money that never stops.

That’s not quite true. SSD is so
sometimes clawed back, if person works too much or their disability is dropped from approved list (like AIDS). Receiving a letter saying you owe $40,000 due immediately without warning is terrifying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why not get a job and work? There are quadriplegics on ventilators who work. There are people with severe multiple sclerosis who don't demand our tax dollar support them. Why can't you work?

Some people make a sport out of gaming the system for payouts. Some doctors do too.

Getting SSD is hard, and takes many years in almost all instances. The only patient I knew in the past few years who got disability with one years time was recently blinded with severe neuropathy in fingers so could not read braille. The others who applied were denied or waiting and in 3rd year of waiting. I knew of two who faced clawbacks after they worked a few too many hours.

[Anonymous]

Public union disability or military disability is easy

[Anonymous]

Same reason "support animal" has you sitting next to a coyote in the airplane.

Stupid liberal policies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Public union disability or military disability is easy

What makes you think that? Do you have specific examples? I have heard that it is difficult, but maybe what I heard was wrong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Public union disability or military disability is easy

What makes you think that? Do you have specific examples? I have heard that it is difficult, but maybe what I heard was wrong.

Yes. My early retirement ER Dr neighbor who now EZ approves them all day on his iPad. Just write down the magic words and you get approved