Friday, December 4, 2015

People are Dying While Waiting for Social Security Disability Approval

   I think of the Veterans Administration scandal, of how people were dying while waiting to be seen at the V.A. hospitals.
  So, five days ago, there is a story on how people are dying while waiting to be approved for Social Security Disability. The story is tucked deep into my newspaper, and I don't think it made much of a ripple nationally.
  Isn't this the same type of a scandal as the V.A. situation? If people are dying for lack of speed in getting their paperwork approved, is that not scandal? If someone were to show up on an emergency at the hospital, and we took so much as a day to process them before admitting them, that would be a scandal. Why is this so different? When you are dying, that is an emergency. It is not a situation where you say, "Let us process your paperwork for the next six months, and then we will take care of you."

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