Handicaps history

Statement of Administration policy, Executive Office of the President, Office of Management and Budget, April 27, 2007

881, enacted May 21, 2008, GINA) became law in the United States The Act prohibits group health plans and health insurers from denying coverage to a healthy individual or charging that person higher premiums based solely on a genetic predisposition to developing a disease in the future.

Carlson, E. A. (2009). Three generations, no imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v.

In 2010, President Obama became the first president since FDR to pass a major health reform bill, but with health insurance companies arguably still largely in control and Congressional Republicans always looking to repeal health care, the resulting impact remains to be seen.

2013 – The United States First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston, Massachusetts found that companies can be required to pay long-term disability benefits to a recovering drug addict if the person would face a significant risk of relapse by returning to work.

By opening the door to hire lesser educated individuals with little to no knowledge about the capabilities of those with disabilities is not only degrading to the profession but also ultimately harms those with disabilities in their pursuit of adequate employment (McClanahan & Sliger, 2015).