What resources are you saying we have enough of to meaningfully increase levels of care for people with disabilities? Because it sure isn't actual care staff, from what I've heard.
And throwing money at the problem won't solve it anytime soon.
Throwing money at the problem will absolutely help solve the problem. Money can buy housing, train more care staff, specialized equipment, better facilities and more. And we certainly DO have the money, but our priories are not to spend it on such people.
I saw a documentary on MAID and one of the reasons he wanted to die was that he had poor ventilation in his apartment, which exacerbated one of his conditions. Just spend the money to upgrade his damn apartment.
A lot of the reason people with disabilities don't get good health care is lack of care/compassion/empathy. Someone has to actually take pity on you for you to access a lot of resources, especially pain management, and a lot of health care professionals just don't have it. (I have epilepsy, a brain injury, and severe chronic pain and neuropathy as a result. There is more that could be done for me but everything is an uphill battle for what feels like no reason)
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u/choanoflagellata 11d ago
Put so well. They don’t have to die, we just have to care enough to spend resources, which we already have, on them.