…RNY) has filed a complaint with the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) against the New York State Department of Health (DOH), because there are no policies from DOH to prevent the discriminatory rationing of health care to people with disabilities. DRNY is requesting that HHS require DOH to immediately take the necessary steps to ensure that New Yorkers with disabilities have equal access to life saving health care. The 20…
…lack people. Ibrahim X. Kendi’s article, Why We Don’t Know Who the Coronavirus Victims Are, calls for racial data. Kendi’s article, What the Racial Data Show, shows that communities of color are being disproportionately affected by COVID-19. Kendi’s article, Stop Blaming Black People for Dying of the Coronavirus shows how the reasons Black folks are dying of COVID-19 are due to systemic racism. Why is COVID-19 hitting the Black community so hard?…
On June 26, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights issued a press release entitled “OCR Resolves Complaint with Tennessee After it Revises its Triage Plans to Protect Against Disability Discrimination.” A number of state and national disability groups had complained that Tennessee’s crisis standards of care (CSC) “would unlawfully disqualify individuals with advanced neuromuscular disease, metastatic cancer, trau…
…rable circumstances. For example, people with depression are given lethal drugs in Oregon, despite the claims of proponents that this condition disqualifies a person. Elder abuse is a growing but still largely unreported reality that threatens to pressure seniors toward an early death. Moreover, the supposed safeguards in the Oregon and Washington State laws don’t really protect patients. If one’s doctor refuses lethal drugs, the patient or family…
…acy benefit managers in using QALYs to inform their decisions about which drugs and treatments they will cover; THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that NCIL opposes the use of the QALY in all decisions concerning health care coverage; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that NCIL will provide technical assistance to CILs to raise awareness that the use of QALYs in health care coverage decisions is discriminatory and will encourage and advise local and state efforts…
