Updated Primers On the Medicaid and Medicare Programs
As the incoming Administration and Congress begin setting priorities for health legislation, the Foundation has updated two primers that explain the role of Medicaid and Medicare in providing health coverage to more than 90 million Americans. Medicaid: A Primer provides an overview of the basic components of the nation’s largest health coverage program, which covers 59 million low-income individuals, including children and families, people with disabilities and the elderly who are also covered by Medicare. Medicaid is also the dominant source of the country’s long-term care financing. Medicare: A Primer explains key elements of the program that now provides health coverage to 45 million people – including nearly 38 million people age 65 and older and another 7 million younger adults with permanent disabilities. The Medicaid Primer is available at http://www.kff.org/medicaid/7334-02.cfm. The Medicare Primer is available at http://www.kff. org/medicare/ 7615.cfm.
Prepared by Foundation staff, the two resources are part of a series that also includes primers on the uninsured, health care costs, and how private health insurance works. The series is available online at http://www.kff.org/medicaid/kcmu100208pkg.cfm
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About canine Companions for Independence
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( 3 / 151 )New Disability Law Lowdown Podcasts in English, Spanish, and American Sign Language (ASL) Now Available
The Disability Law Lowdown, brought to you by the National DBTAC, is a podcast series devoted to bringing listeners the latest on disability law and related disability rights issues. It is available for free download from either iTunes or the Disability Law Lowdown website, at http://www.disabilitylawlowdown.com/, where transcripts are also available. The new podcast episodes now available are The ADA Amendments Act in English, Employment Discrimination and the ADA in Spanish, and Law Enforcement and the ADA in ASL.
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( 3 / 166 )I voted independently!
New York State finally got its act together and had accessible voting machines at the regular polling places that your neighbors go to.
This is my third time actually utilizing the machines as I had tested out in a remote voting place. It does take a lot more time as the technology is still new to the polling persons involved.
I was actually able to give the two women manning my accessible machine some advice they thought it was quite helpful. The whole scene was quite comical but by the end my vote went in without another person viewing it or commenting on my choice of candidate.
Welcome to the 21st century!
**It might be noted our NYS Governor did not use the new machines. There's controvesy in the "community". I'm still debating.
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( 3 / 157 )Mon Oct 27, 2008 4:28pm GMT
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new study shows that women with a disability
are far more likely to experience a physical assault by a spouse or other
intimate partner than those without a disability.
Intimate partner violence is "an understudied issue in much need of
attention," Dr. Brian Armor, who led the study, told Reuters Health. "We need to ensure that prevention initiatives designed to reduce intimate partner violence explicitly include the needs of adults with disabilities
(e.g. ensuring shelters are accessible).
To estimate disability prevalence and differences in intimate partner abuse among women with and without a disability, Armor and his colleagues from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, analyzed data from theCDC's 2006 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System -- a large annual
telephone survey of Americans designed to monitor the prevalence of key health behaviors.
They found that women with a disability were significantly more likely than women without a disability to report experiencing some from of intimate partner violence in their lifetime (37.3 percent versus 20.6 percent).
Women with a disability were more likely to report ever being threatened with violence (28.5 percent vs 15.4 percent) and hit, slapped, pushed,kicked or physically hurt (30.6 percent vs. 15.7 percent) by an intimate partner.
Women with a disability were also much more apt to report a history of unwanted sex by an intimate partner (19.7 percent vs 8.2 percent).
"Future work is needed to get at why" this is so, said Armor, who reported the findings today at the American Public Health Association' s annual meeting in San Diego.
"Perhaps, women with disabilities are vulnerable to intimate partner
violence because their disability might limit mobility and prevent escape;shelters might not be available or accessible to women with disabilities; the disability might adversely affect communication and thus the ability to alert others or the perpetrator might control or restrict the victim's ability to alert others to the problem."
Fear is another possibility, Armor said. "That is, a catch-22, stemming from reliance on the perpetrator for caregiving needs that might go unmet or lead to some form of undesirable placement if they tell authorities. "
He concluded, "Since intimate partner violence is a public help problem, we need to ensure that prevention strategies for people with disabilities are widely adopted."
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