It is SO good to hear this from the parent of a child who has a great need for therapies and supports, yet still understands that state coercion is not the best way to provide for that.
Most people who have children with high support needs feel like there is only one way to get what their children need: to demand it from the state.
To me, the way you said “the choice to force your insurance company to pay” felt a little like a strong arm tactic when I see it as you obtained insurance in the first place to pay for these problems that come up. And insurance generally tries to weasel out of every problem that comes up in every way they can, They have more money and more power and so unless the state has passed legislation, forcing them to do what you paid them to do in the first place, they will get out of it. We adopted a daughter who experienced eight years of pretty much every type of abuse, trauma and neglect there is. As a result, her diagnosis is basically “we don’t know - all of it.” Trauma, dissociation, autism, fetal alcohol, reactive attachment disorder, all of them, something else. She’s in ABA therapy, trauma therapy, and needs other services as well. We would not be able to afford ABA therapy if insurance was not forced to pay for it by law. Luckily, our state is not as bureaucracy heavy as yours in regard to small businesses, though zoning issues in various towns and counties could be. But I believe that impediment to small businesses and to the ability to solve problems ourselves as people in a small collectives/parents is destructive to our society. We absolutely should not have to compete against each other, we should be able to work together.
I've never run for public office, but I imagine the other reason is that cutting out bureaucracy is a long, complicated and thankless task.
...and likely impossible.
It would be like getting a high-level job at a bank, and then working to destroy banking. At some point, the system is going to spit you out.
It is SO good to hear this from the parent of a child who has a great need for therapies and supports, yet still understands that state coercion is not the best way to provide for that.
Most people who have children with high support needs feel like there is only one way to get what their children need: to demand it from the state.
Yep. Unfortunately. But most people have been immersed in a system, and schools, that only offers them that one option.
To me, the way you said “the choice to force your insurance company to pay” felt a little like a strong arm tactic when I see it as you obtained insurance in the first place to pay for these problems that come up. And insurance generally tries to weasel out of every problem that comes up in every way they can, They have more money and more power and so unless the state has passed legislation, forcing them to do what you paid them to do in the first place, they will get out of it. We adopted a daughter who experienced eight years of pretty much every type of abuse, trauma and neglect there is. As a result, her diagnosis is basically “we don’t know - all of it.” Trauma, dissociation, autism, fetal alcohol, reactive attachment disorder, all of them, something else. She’s in ABA therapy, trauma therapy, and needs other services as well. We would not be able to afford ABA therapy if insurance was not forced to pay for it by law. Luckily, our state is not as bureaucracy heavy as yours in regard to small businesses, though zoning issues in various towns and counties could be. But I believe that impediment to small businesses and to the ability to solve problems ourselves as people in a small collectives/parents is destructive to our society. We absolutely should not have to compete against each other, we should be able to work together.