attack on ssdi continues

Senator Rand Paul is walking, breathing, real time proof that narrow
mindedness and closed minds really do breed ignorance. And ignorance
untreated, leads to Stupidity.
May I present Senator Rand Paul, Mister Stupid.

Carl Jarvis
On 1/16/15, joe harcz Comcast <joeharcz@comcast.net> wrote:
> Senator Says Most People On Disability Don't Deserve It
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> Posted on January 14, 2015 at 3:35 pm Updated: January 14, 2015 at 4:42 pm
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> Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY)
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> Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY)
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> CREDIT: AP Photo / Charlie Neibergall
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> Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is claiming that there is widespread fraud in the
> country's disability system because most people who get benefits merely
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> anxiety or sore backs.
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> At a meeting with legislative leaders in Manchester, NH on Wednesday, caught
> on tape by American Bridge, Paul told the room:
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> The thing is that all of these programs, there's always somebody who's
> deserving, everybody in this room knows somebody who's gaming the system. I
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> people that if you look like me and you hop out of your truck, you shouldn't
> be getting a disability check. Over half the people on disability are
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> anxious or their back hurts. Join the club. Who doesn't get up a little
> anxious for work every day and their back hurts? Everyone over 40 has a back
> pain.
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> The disability insurance program, which is part of Social Security, has come
> under scrutiny after
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> two
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> media reports
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> last year that focused on rising enrollment and implied that it was at least
> partly due to fraud. But the reality is different: fraud in disability
> programs
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> is estimated to amount to
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> less than 1 percent
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> and is extremely rare, as the agency's watchdog
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> has found.
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> Its inaccurate payments rate is also
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> less than 1 percent,
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> compared to about 8 percent for Medicaid and Medicare.
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> The benefits are also very hard to come by.
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> Fewer than four in ten
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> applications are approved even after all stages of appeal. Medical evidence
> from multiple medical professionals is required in most cases to determine
> eligibility,
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> which means showing that an applicant suffers from a "severe, medically
> determinable physical or mental impairment that is expected to last 12
> months or
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> result in death." The severity of the disabilities of those who get benefits
> is underscored by the fact that
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> one in five men and nearly one in six women
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> die within five years of being approved.
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> Once on the rolls, payments are far from cushy: they average
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> $1,130 a month,
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> just over the federal poverty line for a single person, and usually replace
> less than half of someone's previous earnings. Very few beneficiaries are
> able
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> to work and supplement that income: less than 17 percent worked at some
> point during the year in 2007, but less than 3 percent of those people made
> more
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> than $10,000 annually.
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> But Republicans still have the program in their sights. They kicked off the
> new Congress with
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> a measure that bans transferring funds
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> between disability insurance and Social Security's retirement finances. The
> managers of both programs have often borrowed from one to fund the other,
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> now will no longer be able to do so. The disability program is strained from
> rising enrollment -- mostly due to
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> expected demographic changes,
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> not the recession -- which could end up forcing a nearly 20 percent in
> disability payments.
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> http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2015/01/14/3611776/rand-paul-disability/
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