Health Care

Action Alert x 2! The Stimulus Package and Funding for Disabilities Services

January 27, 2009

[Update - House passes it 244-188! Now go write your Senators!] OK, people. If you haven’t contacted your Representative in Congress, it’s time to move! The U.S. House of Representatives will debate HR 1, The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 – otherwise known as the Stimulus Package – TOMORROW (Wednesday, January 28th in [...]

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Action Alert! Stimulus Package and Disabilities Funding

January 20, 2009

[Update 1/27/09 - It's crunch time! Go read this update!] While I was feeling a little wait-and-see earlier today about what we’d be able to accomplish legislatively for autism, special education, and disabilities in general in this economic climate, I just discovered there’s plenty of hope to go around! But we must act now! The [...]

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President Obama and Autism

January 20, 2009

Critical Update! Go read my action alert about the Stimulus Package before Congress! At precisely Noon today, the White House web site officially switched over to the Barack Obama Administration. It’s important that we keep track of policies that directly affect us as parents of autistic children and stay committed to our efforts to advocate [...]

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And Now We Will Hold You To It

November 5, 2008

We now have President-Elect Barack Obama, and the two years of campaigning, all the incessant political ads, tens of millions of votes, the raw emotions of this day, and – regardless of how you feel about the outcome – the history we have now witnessed have quickly turned into just preamble. That’s about how long [...]

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Obama and McCain on Autism Spectrum Disorders, Education, and Health Care

October 30, 2008

I had intended to write some sort of analysis of the Presidential candidates and their policies relating to autism spectrum disorders, education, and health care. After I wrote some of it, I realized that’s an epic topic somewhere on the order of “How carbon has influenced the evolution of the Earth.” So, I’m going to [...]

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Mental Health Gets Bailed Out Too! And Disability Rights Activists Get a Two-Fer!

October 3, 2008

OK, I wasn’t planning on posting again until the blog redesign is done (which should be in the next day or two) and we can issue forth a whole exciting deluge of revelations and great excitement. But this was too good to not post. While I think the whole bailout bonanza in Congress is too [...]

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