NDY is grateful to disability rights attorney Kathryn Carroll for her assistance in filing a public comment on the [CMS-9912-IFC] Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services Interim Final Rule: Additional Policy and Regulatory Revisions in Response to the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency. Excerpts are below and, to read the whole comment, go here. January 4, 2021 […]
Not Dead Yet Opposes Proposed “Public Charge” Rule[1] Not Dead Yet joins a large number of other disability, immigrant and other civil rights organizations in strongly opposing the “Public Charge” rule proposed by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The proposed rule discriminates against people with disabilities, people with health problems, the old, the young and lower […]
The Organizers Forum of the National Disability Leadership Alliance just held an educational call about the harms and threats to people with disabilities (and seniors) in the tax bill. As usual, the NDLA website will carry a recording and transcript of the call as soon as possible. Shortly after the call, the U.S. House passed […]
Last Thursday, Not Dead Yet was one of “over 70 individual patients and patient organizations” that joined the Partnership to Improve Patient Care (PIPC) in a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), calling for recognition of us as stakeholders in the Better, Smarter, Healthier initiative and in the Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network. […]
It seems like only last week that I was writing that cuts to health care services that millions of Americans depend on would result in people with disabilities of all ages asking for help in killing themselves as they faced increased impoverishment accompanied with a withdrawal of supports that they rely on. Oh – it […]
Time for a little humor. I’m ready for it, even if no one else is. It happens that today is World Suicide Prevention Day. Big Deal. If anyone reading this wonders why there’s no excitement or enthusiasm about the day here, check out the blog entry for last year’s suicide prevention day. Wesley Smith has […]
