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TopicHealth Care
ContentThere needs to be a way to provide healthcare to everyone but my particular interest is in the mentally disabled community. There are a lot of individuals who due to a physical or mental disability who are unable to work a full-time job with medical benefits and yet the Social Security system does not consider them disabled because they haven't needed to be hospitalized or just because they are able to work some. These individuals often have a lot of difficulty holding a "regular" job and need special accomodations at the workplace such as: flexible schedules for when they are not well enough to work or extra supervision. These individuals must use the emergency rooms or free clinics when available. They do not have access to high quality healthcare because they cannot pay for it. Uninsured individuals with disabilities, whether they be adults or children, cost the state healthcare system more if they are uninsured than it would cost to provide them with adequate coverage. When these individuals are unable to get proper medication to treat their illness or whatever the cause of their disability they often end up in the emergency room or in the case of the mentally ill they often end up in the correctional system.
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