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<blockquote data-quote="tRidiot" data-source="post: 2310351" data-attributes="member: 9374"><p>Interesting thing today... I was watching The Five on Fox this afternoon before work. They had a story about Tom Coburn and his latest expose on the .gov's SSI/Disability program. This costs something like $150 billion a year, I think? About 3 times more than Obamacare is <strong>supposed </strong>to end up costing?</p><p></p><p>According to a story I saw, about 14 million people now get a disability check. That's about, what 4% of the population? <a href="http://apps.npr.org/unfit-for-work/" target="_blank">This story</a> I found talks about it a lot... in some places the number is as high as 9% (statewide) and in some communities, 25%! That article claims it is $260 billion a year. And Coburn's report says the fund is going to run out inside of 18 months if applications and approvals and benefits continue as they are! GONE!</p><p></p><p>So... the funny thing about this is... last night at work (Sunday night) when things slowed down a bit, I sat down and started writing up a lengthy treatise on some fictional cases of people in our society who are on or applying for disability. I wanted to see what you guys thought constituted "real" disability. Well... at the time, I had NO IDEA about Coburn's report actually coming out on 60 minutes. It was a total coincidence that I got my fictional cases half-finished last night and heard about the report today, lol. So tonight I've finished them, and I'm trying to figure out if any of you guys would be interested in reading about them and sharing your thoughts on the "validity" of their disbility.</p><p></p><p>Currently it's about 4 pages in a wordpad file, under 2,000 words, about 50k in filesize. I may go look for someplace I can host it and let whomever is interested download it and give me their thoughts. I think it's a good thought-provoking exercise. May take most of us 10 or 15 minutes to read through them, though I spent a couple of hours typing it all up. I think it's probably too long to just post here, don't you? I don't think most board members will read all that blather, lol.</p><p></p><p>Is this just stupid, or is anyone interested? I'm not trying to start any kind of fight here, I am interested what the average person out in the workforce and society might think of these situations... those of us in healthcare likely have a bit of a skewed view. It's all about discussion, sharing of information and views and thought processes.</p><p></p><p>So... anyone care? Or you think it's just all gonna be a big bashing/bitching fest? I really don't want that... I want a dialogue, honestly, and I want to share ideas with others who have differing viewpoints, starting here.</p><p></p><p>So... lemme know what ya think.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tRidiot, post: 2310351, member: 9374"] Interesting thing today... I was watching The Five on Fox this afternoon before work. They had a story about Tom Coburn and his latest expose on the .gov's SSI/Disability program. This costs something like $150 billion a year, I think? About 3 times more than Obamacare is [B]supposed [/B]to end up costing? According to a story I saw, about 14 million people now get a disability check. That's about, what 4% of the population? [URL="http://apps.npr.org/unfit-for-work/"]This story[/URL] I found talks about it a lot... in some places the number is as high as 9% (statewide) and in some communities, 25%! That article claims it is $260 billion a year. And Coburn's report says the fund is going to run out inside of 18 months if applications and approvals and benefits continue as they are! GONE! So... the funny thing about this is... last night at work (Sunday night) when things slowed down a bit, I sat down and started writing up a lengthy treatise on some fictional cases of people in our society who are on or applying for disability. I wanted to see what you guys thought constituted "real" disability. Well... at the time, I had NO IDEA about Coburn's report actually coming out on 60 minutes. It was a total coincidence that I got my fictional cases half-finished last night and heard about the report today, lol. So tonight I've finished them, and I'm trying to figure out if any of you guys would be interested in reading about them and sharing your thoughts on the "validity" of their disbility. Currently it's about 4 pages in a wordpad file, under 2,000 words, about 50k in filesize. I may go look for someplace I can host it and let whomever is interested download it and give me their thoughts. I think it's a good thought-provoking exercise. May take most of us 10 or 15 minutes to read through them, though I spent a couple of hours typing it all up. I think it's probably too long to just post here, don't you? I don't think most board members will read all that blather, lol. Is this just stupid, or is anyone interested? I'm not trying to start any kind of fight here, I am interested what the average person out in the workforce and society might think of these situations... those of us in healthcare likely have a bit of a skewed view. It's all about discussion, sharing of information and views and thought processes. So... anyone care? Or you think it's just all gonna be a big bashing/bitching fest? I really don't want that... I want a dialogue, honestly, and I want to share ideas with others who have differing viewpoints, starting here. So... lemme know what ya think. [/QUOTE]
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