Disability insurance

However endearing the story of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is, it is a story that blatantly captures a moment in time of palpable prejudices and inequality. Written by Montgomery Ward department store to sell appliances in 1939, it is a testament to what conditions were socially accepted as normal during that time period. Released as a movie in 1964, this story has an explicit lens of bigotry, inequality, and the importance of conforming to society. From the beginning of the movie with the…

I am doing my volunteer hours at an organization called Red River Human Services Foundation. This foundation is focused on helping people with disabilities. I am working alongside a caseworker, or a social worker. They provide support to people with developmental disabilities. Creating goals, making a plan according to their client’s needs, and maintaining financial abilities is just some of the things that a caseworker does in their day. I am working alongside with two social workers. My…

Introduction The following critical review will investigate the introduction and implications of Consumer-Directed Care (CDC) for disability care and services in Australia. This will be achieved through evaluation and critique of Consumer-Directed Care as a service innovation and brief examples from the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). The aim of the critical review will be to assess the strengths and limitations of consumer-directed care – especially in cases where an individual…

not occur at all among human beings.” In modern times, this reliance on others has progressed even further, allowing the Disabled access to our taxes through Social Security payments. Furthermore, the inability to employ them has greatly upped our insurance premiums to pay for their bills. It is therefore obvious that the burden put upon us by these people must be thwarted.…

In the article “The Mystery of Being in Gattaca”, the author Dmetri Kakmi illustrates the different ways that the film projects disability. Kakmi believes that what makes a person crippled is not always the physical part, but also outside factors that can also make them impaired. The author states that Eugene, the disabled man in the movie, was mentally crippled by his own expectations that he could not meet. When Eugene was born he was a 9.3 rating on the perfect scale, he was born great, yet…

resources, if any, provided by the Chinese government: “Only 1 in 12 Chinese needing psychiatric care ever sees a professional, according to a study last year in The Lancet, a British medical journal. China has no national mental health law, little insurance coverage for psychiatric care, almost no care in rural communities, too few inpatient beds, too few professionals and a weak government mental health bureaucracy, Chinese experts in the field say”…

This learning brief will discuss the history of various policies that were enacted through the 1960’s until the 1980’s with regards to mental illness. The brief will discuss the factors that lead to the 1970’s deinstitutionalization movement for persons experiencing mental illness. It will also discuss both the advantages and consequences of deinstitutionalization. The brief will conclude with a discussion on issues that are important for social workers to consider today. In 1963, the…

looking to increase this number. Castor insurance offers three types of plans: The Castor Standard plan, the Castor Enhanced plan, and the Castor Enhanced plan minor. The Castor standard plan is a basic plan that offers low premiums, but does not cover preexisting conditions. The Castor Enhanced plan does cover preexisting conditions and offers more services than the Castor Standard plan, but the premium is much higher. The representatives of Castor insurance have to help two different groups to…

In the United States today, the healthcare system is based more on business than to help those in need. Greedy insurance and pharmaceutical companies are taking the hard earned dollars of millions of people. Patients who need to seek medical care have no other choice than to pay out of pocket for thousands of dollars of care, or they can go without receiving the care at all. While other patients cannot afford to pay for medication necessary for their survival. The medical industry in our country…

Trauma Insurance to Reduce the Financial Trauma Have you been thinking of protecting yourself and your loved ones with an insurance policy? Most of us often think about insurance cover and financial protection but don’t act on it, as we often believe that nothing can go wrong with our family or us. Tragedies do not happen only to strangers. It can happen to our friends or neighbours, and to any one of us in general. Life has strange ways of popping both pleasant as well as unpleasant surprises…