May 18, 2007

Patients with Disabilities Sue State

Patients with Disabilities Sue State

Dr. Judy Ann Bigby, health and human services secretary, said "Providing
comprehensive services in the most appropriate setting to persons with
disabilities, including brain injuries, is a priority for the administration,"
she said. "Overall, the [state] spends over $900 million per year in
community-based, long-term-care services." (Raja Mishra, "Brain injury patients
sue state, Boston Globe, May 18, 2007)
A bigger priority for the Harvard corporate lawyer Governor is providng $1
billion to the bottomless biotech research industry pit. Like all deceptive
politicians they make it up as they go.
Why is the Globe silent on this issue for so many years? Journalists share
perspective with business interests, providing goods and services but not rights
to persons with disabilities shows their lack of concern.
Why did it take the taxpayer funded lawyers so many years to bring this suit?
The ADA is law since 1990, the Rehabilitation Act since 1973.
There can be no damages unless the Dept. of Justice brings the action. That
is why the state court judges make agreements and then ignore them. Persons with
disabilities have no protection from lawless, shameless psychopathic government
officials.

Roy Bercaw, Editor ENOUGH ROOM
Cambridge MA USA

Brain injury patients sue state
Lawsuit seeks community care
By Raja Mishra,
Boston Globe Staff
May 18, 2007

Catherine Hutchinson strolled in from gardening one day 11 years ago and
collapsed in her Attleboro home, suffering a brain-stem stroke that left the
single mother of two paralyzed from the neck down and mute.

Yesterday, in a written statement composed with the aid of caretakers and
special computers, Hutchinson said that her life in nursing homes since the
stroke has heaped misery on her mis fortune.

"I feel isolated from the real world. I have little to no privacy. I don't want
to live this way, and I can't think of anyone else who would," she said in the
statement, read during a press conference in Boston.
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