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That's exactly what they thought was going to happen. For-profit health care is a business. Businesses prioritize profits over all else. In the US, it's just blatant corruption.
Wouldn't matter if you filled it out you still be denied. You have to pay an attorney to be approved.
If you can’t afford to pay an attorney it’s very common for lawyers who are representing people applying for disability to work on contingency. If you’re approved for disability you usually get back pay dating to when you first started the process, and the lawyer takes a percentage of that as payment.
My brother (not adhd) was able to do it himself but basically compiled a database to do it.
Have a friend who is essentially bedridden who got denied 3 times before having an attorney file.
I wonder if it’s a bit like the food stamp process where what you get depends in large part on who you get as your program officer so it’s a bit of a crap shoot.
This isn’t about health care but disability services and social welfare but sure
Huh? How is it not healthcare? ADHD is a disorder that's usually well-treated with medication.
I get the person is applying for a disability claim but surely they must already have tried and failed to achieve satisfactory symtpom adjustment to receive welfare?
It’s literally about filing a disability claim
Disability claims are part of healthcare
Sure but the claim is “for profit healthcare is bullshit”. In America disability claims are the one part of the healthcare system that is actually socialized and paid by the state (speaking generally, unless we get into the ugly nuances of short term disability which is usually paid by private insurers tbf but my assumption for something like adhd which is a lifelong disability they’re discussing something like SSDI)
They're filed with their state, not a health insurance company.
Does that mean
A) disability claims aren't healthcare
B) insurance companies aren't the only healthcare providers in the world
?
I can't tell if this is an actual confusion about the difference between the American health care and social services systems or just like petty malicious internet one-upmanship.
Assuming it's the former, disability payments aren't actually part of the health care system in the United States. Like, you don't get a payout from any organization that actually handles healthcare, it's a separate bureaucracy that just serves to gatekeep disability income.