Muitos governos no mundo acham (ou dizem que acham) que podem diminuir a desigualdade entre as pessoas simplesmente dando dinheiro, não precisa deste negócio chamado trabalho.
Bom, nunca na história dos Estados Unidos, por conta da recessão que se alastra desde 2008 e por conta das políticas contra produtivas do governo Obama, o País teve tanta gente que recebe ajuda do governo se declarando deficiente.
Pior: um estudo mostrou que a grande maioria dos beneficiários por deficiência nos Estados Unidos (35,5%), não conseguindo mostrar nenhuma deficiência física, se declara doente mental. Dentre dos doentes mentais, o mais comum é o tipo que tem alteração de humor (mood disorder)
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35.5% of Disability Beneficiaries Have ‘Mental Disorder’; 43.2% in D.C.
28 January 2014
January 28, 2014 - 2:07 PM
By Ali
Meyer
(CNSNews.com)
- “Mental disorder” is the leading “diagnostic group” for disabled people
receiving federal disability insurance benefits, with 35.5 percent of all
disabled beneficiaries having such a disorder, according to the latest Annual Statistical Report on the Social Security Disability
Insurance Program.
The
report provides a statistical profile of the 10,088,739 disabled beneficiaries
who were receiving federal disability benefits as of December 2012.
Those
10,088,739 disabled beneficiaries were almost double the 5,044,388 disabled
beneficiaries who had been in the program as of December 1995.
In
Washington, D.C., according to the report, 43.2 percent of disabled
beneficiaries as of December 2012 had been diagnosed with a mental disorder.
In
Massachusetts--which led the nation in this metric--50.1 percent of disabled
beneficiaries had been diagnosed with a mental disorder.
Within
the “mental disorders diagnostic group,” the most common specific diagnosis for
disabled beneficiaries was a “mood disorder.” According to the report, as of
December 2012, 14.1 percent of all disabled beneficiaries in the United States
had such a disorder.
In
Massachusetts--which led in this category also--22.7 percent of the disabled
beneficiaries had been diagnosed with a mood disorder.
Washington,
D.C., lagged slightly behind the national percentage, with 13.8 percent of its
disabled beneficiaries having been diagnosed with a mood disorder.
However,
Washington, D.C. led the nation in the percentage of disabled beneficiaries who
had been diagnosed with “schizophrenic and other psychotic disorders.” 10.8
percent of the disabled beneficiaries in D.C. had received that diagnosis.
As of
December 2012, according to the report, there were 10,088,739 disabled
beneficiaries receiving federal disability insurance benefits. These included
8,826,591 disabled workers; 1,006,676 disabled adult children; and 255,472
disabled widows and widowers.
A disabled worker, according to the Social Security
Administration (SSA), is a “beneficiary who worked in covered employment long
enough to be insured and who had been working recently in covered employment
prior to disability onset.”
“Individuals
are considered to be disabled only if their physical or mental impairment(s)
are of such severity that they are not only unable to do their previous work
but cannot--because of their age, education, or work experience--engage in any
other kind of substantial gainful activity (SGA) that exists in the national
economy,” says SSA.
“If
something happens to a worker,” says SSA, “benefits may be payable to their
widow, widower or surviving divorced spouse with a disability if the following
conditions are met: he or she is between ages 50 and 60, their condition meets
the definition of disability for adults and the disability started before or
within seven years of the workers death.”
“A
disabled person aged 18 or older--a son, daughter, or eligible grandchild of a
retired, deceased, or disabled worker – whose disability began before age 22”
can also qualify for disability benefits, says SSA.
Of the
10,088,739 disabled people receiving federal disability benefits in December
2012, according to the report, 3,576,844—or 35.5 percent--were diagnosed with a
mental disorder.
The
second largest diagnostic group for disabled beneficiaries was “musculoskeletal
system and connective tissue” problems. Of the 10,088,739 disabled people
receiving federal disability benefits in December 2012, 2,730,100—or 27.1
percent—had been diagnosed with a problem in this category.
The ten
states (and the District of Columbia) with the largest percentage of local
disability beneficiaries diagnosed with a “mental disorder” include: 1)
Massachusetts, 50.1 percent; 2) New Hampshire, 49.5 percent; 3) Hawaii, 47.5
percent; 4) Rhode Island, 47.2 percent; 5) Minnesota, 46.9 percent; 6) Vermont,
45.3 percent; 7) Connecticut, 43.9 percent; 8) the District of Columbia, 43.2
percent; 9) Maine, 42.9 percent; and 10) Washington, 40.1 percent.
The ten
states with the lowest percentage of local disabled beneficiaries diagnosed
with a mental disorder include: 1) Alabama, 29.2 percent; 2) Georgia, 29.5
percent; 3) Arkansas, 30.1 percent; 4) South Carolina, 30.2 percent; 5) West
Virginia, 30.3. percent; 6) Louisiana, 30.3 percent; 7) Florida, 30.7 percent;
8) Nevada, 31.0 percent; 9) North Carolina, 31.5 percent; and 10) Delaware,
31.7 percent.
Within
the mental disorders diagnostic group, the SSA reports numbers for eight
subgroups. These include autistic disorders (37,445 or 0.4 percent of all
disabled beneficiaries), developmental disorders (12,193 or 0.1 percent), childhood
and adolescent disorders not elsewhere classified (11,621 or 0.1 percent),
intellectual disability (845,189 or 8.4 percent), mood disorders (1,424,681 or
14.1 percent), organic mental disorders (341,209 or 3.4 percent), schizophrenic
and other psychotic disorders (518,752 or 5.1 percent), and other (385,754 or
3.8 percent).
A mood
disorder, otherwise known as an affective disorder, says
SSA, is: “Characterized by a disturbance of mood, accompanied by a full or
partial manic or depressive syndrome. Mood refers to a prolonged emotion that
colors the whole psychic life; it generally involves either depression or
elation.”
To be
determined to be suffering a disabling mood disorder, a person must exhibit a
combination of multiple factors. These include such things as “appetite disturbance with
change in weight; or sleep disturbance; or psychomotor agitation or
retardation; or decreased energy; or feelings of guilt or worthlessness; or
difficulty concentrating or thinking; or thoughts of suicide; or
hallucinations, delusions, or paranoid thinking.”
The
states in which the highest percentages of local disabled beneficiaries have
been diagnosed with a mood disorder include: 1) Massachusetts, 22.7
percent; 2) New Hampshire, 22.0 percent; 3) Rhode Island, 20.5 percent; 4)
Minnesota, 18.1 percent; 5) Vermont, 17.2 percent; 6) Connecticut, 16.9
percent; 7) Arizona, 16.8 percent; 8) Maine, 16.7 percent,; 9) Hawaii, 16.6
percent; and 10) Ohio, 16.1 percent.
The states in which the lowest percentages of local disabled
beneficiaries have been diagnosed with a mood disorder include: 1) North
Dakota, 9.0 percent; 2) Louisiana, 9.7 percent; 3) Montana, 9.9 percent; 4)
South Dakota, 10.2 percent; 5) Georgia, 10.3 percent; 6) Alaska, 10.3 percent;
7) Wyoming, 10.6 percent; 8) North Carolina, 10.7 percent; 9) West Virginia,
10.9 percent; and 10) South Carolina, 11.0 percent.
In 1984,
Congress made amendments to the disability program that according to a history
of the program posted on the Social Security Administration’s website,
increased the number of beneficiaries with “mental impairments.”
“Disability
benefits could not be discontinued unless there had been medical
improvement, the beneficiary was capable of performing substantial
gainful activity because of medical/vocational therapy or technology; or the
initial determination was in error,” the SSA history says in explaining the
1984 amendments.
“The
Secretary was required to revise the criteria under the Mental Disorders
category in the Listing of Impairments used to make disability determinations,
and SSA was prohibited from conducting continuing disability reviews in mental
impairment cases until the revisions were published in a final regulation,”
says the SSA history.
“One
significant pattern that emerged following the 1984 Amendments involved
beneficiaries with mental impairments,” says the history. “Changes in the
medical listings had the effect of increasing this category of disability
beneficiaries. The revised listings for mental impairments reduced the weight
given to medical factors and put a greater weight on functional capacities,
such as the applicant's ability to perform activities of daily living. They
also required that evidence provided by the applicant's health care provider be
considered first, before a consultative examination. Between 1985 and 1986, the
proportion of awards for mental impairments increased from 18 percent to
30 percent of all awards, and has remained at approximately the same level
ever since.”
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