…ment and oversight responsibilities to cover only the most cost-effective drugs and treatments or to require the agency to impose restrictions on less cost-effective treatments. Congress should pass legislation prohibiting the use of QALYs by Medicaid and Medicare and provide funding to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for research on best practices on the use of cost-effectiveness to inform benefits and coverage decisions wi…
…would be heard before the Council’s Human Services Committee on Monday, February 3rd. (h/t to Stephen Mendelsohn of Second Thoughts Connecticut for alerting us.) The disability advocates at Progress Center for Independent Living, including Evanston resident Larry Biondi, showed up to ensure that the disability opposition to the resolution was clearly heard. News coverage of the Committee meeting included a photo of Biondi making the case that assi…
…e House estimates put the cost of premature reopening at more than 230,000 human beings. Not all of whom will be old, ill and/or disabled. Many will be health care workers. Some will be young. Some will have been healthy before becoming ill. Georgia has already had a surge in cases. Perhaps most importantly in all of this is the question of who we want to be as a people. I’ve even seen advocates for this trying to dress up their devil’s bargain in…
…is the longest-running national cross-disability, grassroots organization run by and for people with disabilities. Founded in 1982, NCIL represents thousands of organizations and individuals including: individuals with disabilities, Centers for Independent Living (CILs), Statewide Independent Living Councils (SILCs), and other organizations that advocate for the human and civil rights of people with disabilities throughout the United States. NCIL…
…otect their interests. 139. Plaintiffs’ claims satisfy the requirements of Rule 23(b)(2) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, because Defendant has acted on grounds generally applicable to the named Plaintiffs and each absent member of the proposed class, thereby making final adjudicative and declaratory relief appropriate with respect to the proposed Class as a whole. FIRST CLAIM FOR RELIEF TITLE II OF THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT 42 U…
