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From: cjohn975@pallas.athenanet.com (John Johnson)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: SOCIAL SECURITY
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Date: 26 Oct 90 03:15:24 GMT
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Index Number: 11276

In article <15090@bunker.UUCP> Dan.Kysor@f11.n203.z1.fidonet.org writes:
>Index Number: 11217
>
>herrah!  hurrah!  clap! clap! clap!  i think many of these 2 bit
>rehab agencies should loose their funding (get rid of the middle
>man) and the funds from s.s.a. which go to rehab should go directly
>to the client.  Rehab here in california is a total joke.  if
>corruption dosen't get in the way, it's there 2 pet programs they
>pawn off on the unemployed, college or b.e.p.  i'd like to see them
>shut down and let's have a choice of "private rehab" services or
>get the funds directly!!!

I think the main reason that these state rehab folks are unwilling to
send clients out of state is fear.  They know that their own state
programs can't measure up to some of the private programs out
there.  The "good ole boys," are operating as if things were the same
now as they were twenty-five or thirty years ago when they could tell
a blind consumer "this is the only program there is, take it or leave
it," but the times they are a-changin and mediocrity just isn't good
enough anymore.  These guys better wake up and smell the coffee.

--Chip-- (cjohn975@athenanet.com or uunet!pallas!cjohn975)