Social Security Disability continued
Harry,
I just reviewed the information presented by Chana Joffe-Walt. It made me so mad I could spit…One quarter of an entire county on disability benefits…How is that possible without a tremendous unethical if not illegal effort by the local medical and county establishment to achieve this?
States hiring firms to move their impoverished citizens from the welfare programs to the Social Security Disability and Medicare Funds and paying these firms $2,000 or $3,000 per person switched… No wonder the Social Security Disability Fund will be broke by 2016 and the Medicare fund by 2025.
Several big law firms raking in tens of millions of dollars by overwhelming the judges at the appeal Hearings by the Administrative Law Judges for disability cases. The judges don’t have a chance without an advocate there representing the trust funds and the tax payers.
These physicians, these states, and these lawyers should be ashamed of themselves…but they aren’t. They are just making money…without concern for the long term stability of the Social Security Disability and Medicare programs. It is time to add resources to the Social Security Administration so we can defend these programs, the tax payers, and the folks who really need and deserve these programs. Review every disabled worker on the program over 4 years. Add lawyers to advocate for the programs and the tax payers at Hearings by the Administrative Law Judges so it is balanced and fair once more. Put in laws to stop the unethical and illegal behavior by the physicians, the states, and the lawyers who are riding this gravy train. Impose heavy fines and put a few of them in jail. The others will get the message.
Sam Allen
