SS Disability

[thucythucy]

22. I call BS!

First of all, are you talking about SSI (Supplemental Security Income) or SSDI (Social Security Disability Insurance)? These are two entirely different programs, and if you don't understand the difference then you can't possibly know anything about your "patients."

To get on SSDI one has to have been in the workforce and paid into the system for a certain number of quarters. So any "girl" with a "deviated septum" or "girl" with epilepsy couldn't possibly qualify, unless by "girl" you mean woman, in which case you're being sexist.

A girl "with a seizure disorder" whose never had a seizure and is not on meds would never qualify for SSI, period.

"Prematurity" without any other condition would never qualify as a disability under SSI or SSDI, period.

To get on SSI or SSDI you need to get a doctor to sign a sworn statement testifying that the condition is indeed disabling. You have to provide medical records and documentation on the disability. Then you have to go through an SSA approval process. Then you need to be periodically re-certified as continuing to have a disability.

There may be a few instances of abuse, but for every one of those there are hundreds of people who should be on the rolls but get stymied by the bureaucratic hoops you have to jump through to qualify. Among them: if you don't have health insurance, how do you get to see a doctor willing to evaluate you, so you can qualify and thus get health insurance? The system historically has been riddled with such Catch 22s--which always work to keep deserving people out of the system, as opposed to non-disabled people in.

Peddle your BS somewhere else.