Posts by Sacha
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There will never be unlimited public budgets. How will prioritisation happen?
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Up Front: Another Brick in the Wall, in reply to giovanni tiso,
What you said is exactly what I mean when talking about meeting people's needs and removing barriers. The medical profession should not be the gatekeepers of that.
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Up Front: Another Brick in the Wall, in reply to giovanni tiso,
the bizarre and completely unfounded assumption that there a lot of people out there who would fake an intellectual disability
Because disability is so cool. I know. Statistics NZ have kept a straight face while claiming that heaps of people who aren't actually disabled said they were in the 2001 and 2006 Censuses. Seriously.
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Up Front: Another Brick in the Wall, in reply to Hilary Stace,
A coordinator works alongside all the disabled people in that area who come to the coordinator for help and guides them through the mazes and finds appropriate services and support specifically for that person.
Not working here because local coordinators have been directed to first load the person's family and friends with unfunded demand before considering any services that might require public money. Again, the rationing mindset undermining a good system in theory.
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Up Front: Another Brick in the Wall, in reply to Lilith __,
Imagine if we could start from a person's needs, and how they could be best supported to realise their full potential. Instead of "how little support can we get away with?"
At its root, we need to regard disabled people as worthwhile. Which won't happen on its own.
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Up Front: Another Brick in the Wall, in reply to Emma Hart,
far too demeaning
Always found that sad. Highlights the constant tension Hilary mentions between a state-sanctioned theory about capability but an actual system that insists on amping up weakness to qualify for resources and opportunities. Utterly perverse, inhuman and wasteful.
If the resources used to maintain a system that asumes everyone will rip it off were instead put into actual supports and removing barriers, there might be enough to go around.
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Up Front: Another Brick in the Wall, in reply to giovanni tiso,
The rationing of crucial resources is unavoidably wrong, unfair and sub-human. However,
We don't set a limit of how many broken bones people can have - the hospital system will set them all - or on the number of cancers people can have.
They're called waiting lists - and private medical insurance. Most of the public are just not aware how much the public health system has been put into rationing mode over the last few years.
We also require that public buildings be physically accessible.
Almost inhaled my coffee. If only.
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Up Front: Another Brick in the Wall, in reply to Hilary Stace,
it is a widely held but false perception out there in the sector, that another group is getting something that 'we' aren't.
That fragmentation prevents people achieving any critical mass in influencing change. Other disadvantaged parts of society seem to have heeded that lesson.
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Up Front: Another Brick in the Wall, in reply to Brent Jackson,
Using Sign Language to talk must be considered a "spoken interaction", surely ?
Yes, call their bluff, the feckers.
(Ah, saw later replies. As you were.)
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Quotes from lawmakers as the GCSB Act was brought into being may reveal their intent.