Thread by @DebraCartles

🧵1) of 9 #DisabilityTwitter #DisabilityRights #Disability #chronicillness #ChronicPain #RareDisease Is our country 80+ yrs later treating our most vulnerable citizens any different? 👇 Just killing us in different ways.
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🧵🧵2) "the Nazi ideological conviction which labeled these persons "life unworthy of life".This country makes it near IMPOSSIBLE to get disability after paying into it via taxes for decades once we become ill. Medications unaffordable unless you're rich.Why?

3) Yr after yr & appeals we fill out COUNLESS FORMS. "The limited space & wording on the forms, as well as the instructions in the accompanying cover letter, combined to give the impression that the survey was intended simply to gather statistical data."

4) Knowing FULL WELL we have lost EVERYTHING by this point after years of dicking us around they're hoping we'll finally just croak so they can NOT pay out. We can't afford doctors anymore because-no more job- we have no insurance & THAT works AGAINST us. 😡

5) By this time you'll have a hearing in front of a judge who won't take any of your doctors specialist information/documentation saying they're "not persuaded" and go with their Dr they forced you to see for all of about 13 minutes & didn't have my records.

6.) "The form's sinister purpose was suggested only by the emphasis placed upon the patient's capacity to work and by the categories of patients which the inquiry required health authorities to identify".

7.) After 4+ yrs of this 5hit you'll get another denial that'll tell you why yes, we recognize you're ill and the vocational expert says no jobs can be done by this person, BUT (You're gonna LOVE THIS) you can file a FEDERAL appeal for the nominal fee of $450

8.) And wait another probable two more years. It would be more humane just for them to kill me now. Although the Nazis did starve the disabled as well as gas them, so there's that. Being denied basic human amenities/necessities is CRUEL! USA has hate 4 us.

9.) Congress now in addition to getting almost 200K/yr plus golden health insurance now gets their rent & food covered?!?! Why is that ok for them, but not for the people who paid taxes their entire life? Because #disabilityhate #socialmurder

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