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Disability Health Articles and Information

• Managed Care, Discrimination, Poverty, Inequality

Human Resources personnel have the ability to help persons with disabilities into the workplace, and there are certainly disabled people who are willing to work. Unfortunately, there are some hurdles that get in the way, hurdles such as managed care, Medicare, Health Maintenance Organizations, Social Security, and historical and current oppressive mentalities on the part of nondisabled persons. In this part of my paper I approach these subjects, beginning with the fact that persons with disabilities and organizations need each other.

• Social Security, People with Disabilities, Services

Recently, MSNBC published an article related to people with disabilities seeking Social Security benefits. The well-written article is not only politically-relevant, it speaks of a matter that concerns everyone in America. Approximately every 49 seconds in this nation, a person who was formerly nondisabled experiences a form of disability, making the need for programs such as Social Security extremely important to every person in America.

• SSA, Compassionate Allowances, Improvements

The Social Security Administration (SSA) has improved the processes involved with applying for benefits through their system by expanding the number of forms of disabilities on their Compassionate Allowances List. The Compassionate Allowances List presents forms of disabilities that the administration deems as clearly qualifying for Social Security benefits such as SSI, allowing for more rapid decisions in regards to the most obvious cases.