Tuesday, September 24, 2024

Millions of people are missing from U.S. disability data. Really!

Propaganda and demagoguery? Most likely!

Or are actually too many diagnosed with a disability? Quite possible!

Is it not sometimes very convenient or even desirable to be diagnosed with a disability? Think of all the perks (e.g. special parking)!

Does not the medical profession have a keen business interest to diagnose as many as possible? It's often chronic and may require long term care.

Caveat: I did not read the article.

The authors: "Swenor is the founding director of the Johns Hopkins Disability Health Research Center. Landes is an associate professor of sociology and O’Hanley faculty scholar at Syracuse University. Hall is director of the Institute for Health and Disability Policy Studies at the University of Kansas." Any conflict of interest here?

The U.S. definition of disability is too narrow | STAT "Federal surveys focus on limitations on specific tasks, missing many with mental illness, chronic health conditions, and more."

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