With the explosion of online buying opportunities why shouldn’t I get the best deal and purchase my equipment and supplies on line? Generally speaking, the lower the price, the fewer the services that are available. The caution is buyer beware.
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As you can tell by some of the earlier posts on this site we often get emails from visitors. We also get input from people who have written to their senators and representatives, or as I like to refer to them, “honorables”. Now that the health care implosion and aftershock have begun to sink in, many constituents are waiting to see how the final deal gets brokered. The Business Roundtable, an association of big business CEOs whose companies provide healthcare for more than 35 million Americans, just released a new study that shows that costs and performance of the U.S. health care system have put America’s companies and workers at a significant competitive disadvantage in the global marketplace. What U.S. city has the most overall taxis? Yup, it is New York, New York. Whether you live here, or somewhere else in this country or around the world, you may know about New York’s iconic yellow taxis. 
More If all new taxis were accessible, in every community, eventually the word “taxi” would mean “accessible taxi.”
More Like a skilled pickpocket’s distraction, government offers independence with one hand while the other hand robs you of it.
MoreDenied A WheelchairA recent proclamation by President Obama calls on the nation to recognize and support the significance of October as National Disability Employment Awareness Month. So why am I not more excited?
MoreRead The Presidential ProclamationCheck out this video in which Senator Claire McCaskill proposes to save health care bucks by cutting back on Medicare provided wheelchairs. This is certainly not a fresh idea. It’s been kicked around so many times that I thought it might be worn out by now. It case you hadn’t realized, computer technologies have come a long way over the last decade. What once took a room full of computers has been repeatedly modified, enhanced, shrunken and commoditized to the extent that my son’s calculator has more power than the entire computing power of Apollo 11. (That’s the rocket that carried man to the moon, in case your Google is lagging.)
MoreText-to-Speech Technology Reached an Inflection PointInsurers Fight Speech Impairment Remedy. Computers have opened pathways to employment, communication, socialization and exploration for people with disabilities (oh yeah, and everyone else too). I guess this is why I became so enraged recently when I realized that common sense had failed. |
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