Okay, she tried to clarify:
"KRNV News 4 asked Sharron Angle's campaign for comment yesterday, and her spokesperson Jerry Stacy sent us the following in an email just before noon today:
"Sharron believes that anyone affected with autism deserves the best medical coverage and treatment, and she speaks out against these expensive government mandates which falsely label other symptoms as autism because it creates this huge cottage industry that drives up health insurance cost while diluting the needed coverage for those patients affected by autism...and nobody is buying Senator Reid's latest despicable attempt of trying to distract voters from his failed record."
Vice-Chair for the Commission on Autism in Nevada Ralph Toddre released this statement today:
"What Ms. Angle claims about AB 162 is false. The bill is very specific that the coverage is for autism spectrum disorders. It does not create a "cottage industry." It covers medically necessary treatment and evidence-based therapy, as well as the screening and diagnosis. It is autism specific. Legislators and advocates made sure of that. Read the bill! You don't condemn a bill that provides for medical coverage and treatment because you think it will become diluted! One in 110 children in this country is affected by autism. That is more than juvenile diabetes, HIV, and childhood cancers combined. All of those are covered by insurance. Why should autism be discriminated against by insurance companies?""
I guess the other symptom was what... pregnancy. Still doesn't make any sense. If this was coming from Reid, I would still be screaming. This is just insane.
Why indeed shouldn't autism be in line with diabetes, HIV, and cancers? Heck, Jimmy has seizures as a comorbidity now. Tell me this is not medical.
Not too long ago, I was out with the boys (it was over the summer, one of the rare occasions I ventured out both.) A man asked me what was "wrong" with Jimmy. I said he was autistic. He said that I was irresponsible, asking if I had prenatal testing, that I should have "taken care of it" before I created a burden for society. I was stunned, but didn't respond the way I would have liked because I didn't want Jacob to notice. I am still sick about. It isn't the first unkind thing I have ever said to me, but it was the worst by far. When I hear people like Sharron Angle, it is comments like that echo in like my mind. Heartless people that see my son as less than human, soulless insurance companies (who often buy people like Sharron Angle and, yes, even Senator Reid in Washington to spout crap like this for them - though Reid has a better record on autism than Angle at the moment) that see him not as worthy of care as someone who has been in an accident or had a stroke. Everyone deserve a life and my son deserves to have his medical needs met under my health policy.
My Aunt, Uncle, and Dadoo get phone calls tomorrow. If Dadoo's son is a registered voter, he gets one too.
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