Blog Archive 2012

Military spouses risk multiple deployments in combat zones so that their children back home could continue to receive treatment.  In a recent Congressional briefing on Caring for Military Children with Autism, Lieutenant Colonel Scott Campbell, father of 13 year old with autism, testified he is happy he was diagnosed with lung cancer because that is […]

Last October California formally ended autism insurance discrimination by passing SB 946 requiring insurance companies and health care service plans to provide coverage of medically necessary treatments for autism as a medical benefit. California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones applauded passage of the bill  within days of passage. "Behavioral therapy is widely considered to be an essential […]

States can't cut in-home care for disabled and elderly people if there's a serious risk they'll be forced into nursing homes, a federal appeals court has ruled.  Friday's ruling by the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco came from Washington state, where officials reduced home-care hours for 45,000 residents by 10 percent […]