The AMA Can Help Fix the Health Care Shortages it Helped Create
Now is a pivotal time for the American Medical Association to reconsider its aggressive scope of practice lobbying.
COVID-19
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Read more: Achieving Economic Security for Disabled People During COVID-19 and Beyond Achieving Economic Security for Disabled People During COVID-19 and Beyond
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the shortcomings of our current disability laws and policies, particularly those related to economic insecurity.
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Read more: NFIB v. OSHA and Its Contradiction with the GOP’s Disability Employment Agenda NFIB v. OSHA and Its Contradiction with the GOP’s Disability Employment Agenda
Conservative jurisprudence during the pandemic is at odds with the goal of full, in-person employment.
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Read more: Blue Booking Long COVID: Accounting for Long-Term COVID-19 Complications in Social Security Disability Benefits Evaluations Blue Booking Long COVID: Accounting for Long-Term COVID-19 Complications in Social Security Disability Benefits Evaluations
The Social Security Administration should amend the Blue Book to include Long COVID in its determination of disability benefits.
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Read more: Our New Remote Workplace Culture Creates Opportunities for Disabled Employees Our New Remote Workplace Culture Creates Opportunities for Disabled Employees
This shift in our workplace culture presents employment opportunities for disabled people that they may not have had in the past.
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Read more: Who ‘Deserves’ Health, Who ‘Deserves’ Freedom? A Recurrent Divide in SCOTUS Vaccine Mandate Cases Who ‘Deserves’ Health, Who ‘Deserves’ Freedom? A Recurrent Divide in SCOTUS Vaccine Mandate Cases
Many occupational risks, after all, can be framed as universal. If those protections, too, fall, the most vulnerable will, as always, be most vulnerable.
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Read more: Negotiating Masks in the Workplace: When the ADA Does and Does Not Apply Negotiating Masks in the Workplace: When the ADA Does and Does Not Apply
Workplaces are, by and large, no longer safe for employees who are high-risk for serious illness or death from COVID-19.
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Read more: Introduction to the Symposium: Build Back Better? Health, Disability, and the Future of Work Post-COVID Introduction to the Symposium: Build Back Better? Health, Disability, and the Future of Work Post-COVID
This symposium aims to address the critical junctures of health, disability, and work at the heart of the domestic policy response to COVID-19.
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Read more: Please Keep Your Masks On Please Keep Your Masks On
Wearing masks in common, indoor spaces is such a small, easy, powerful act to help prevent the spread of disease.
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Read more: Private Employer Vaccine Mandates in the Courts Private Employer Vaccine Mandates in the Courts
Private employers’ discretion to establish employee vaccine mandates is generally well-accepted. Yet, legal challenges have proliferated.
