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She would be perfect in politics. Most of them have less than half a brain.

She should give power of attorney to her husband, and then her husband should sue the government on her behalf. Ten to one the government will back down rather than go to a trial that would make a jury that made at the government and that willing to award high punitive damages.

There is such an enormous "axis of fraud" and fakery that involves applicants, lawyers, doctors, and yes, the bleeding heart, superficial press, I would never take an article like this at face value. There has got to be more to it than what is stated.

She later learned that while her heart was stopped, her hippocampus — the portion of her brain that stores short-term memory — atrophied. She was told she would never be able to recall a memory again; not her wedding day, the births of her children, their school graduations, their wedding days.
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Despite her medical issues, she can watch surveillance monitors, the government says.

Yep, that's government thinking for you. Have the person who can't store short-term memories watch surveillance monitors. And these are the guys who spend billions of our tax payer dollars to keep us safe from terrorism.

Ceffer says

There has got to be more to it than what is stated.

Unfortunately, I doubt that there's more that what's been stated. Yes, there is a lot of fraud out there. But the system is fucked up and it's designed to deny benefits. I've seen many people who were denied disability even though they were dying and unable to work.

I've actually witnessed many cases where patients continued to be denied total disability, even though they died during the application process.

It's not the money that's important (although that's part of it); once a patient is deemed to be disabled he/she's eligible for Medicare 2 years from the arbitrary date that Social Security decides that they were disabled. So, if they have a serious medical condition that keeps them from working, they also lack the ability to be treated for that condition until Medicare kicks in.

When healthcare reform kicks in, they should qualify for medical ccare. They just need to wait over a year first.

Well how does she remember every morning that she needs to follow through with her fight?

CaptainShuddup says

Well how does she remember every morning that she needs to follow through with her fight?

She forgets everything but the money.