Good points. Cost is definitely an issue that hits disabled people hard. The UK disability charity Scope is running a campaign at the moment that estimates the average cost of being disabled at around £550 a month, call it c$900, and that's without the extra costs of meds etc the US system sticks disabled people with. (And I guess without cost of lost earnings - that would be £2.5-3k a month for me, probably £3.5-4k if they'd been paying me what I was worth)
You have some good thoughts in your list, others that occur to me: membership costs for people who need a personal aide/carer with them; and, talked about this on my LonCon report, the cost of hiring mobility equipment - eventually I got cheap wheelchair hire because LonCon arranged low cost hire, but at one point I was looking at hire doubling my costs to attend (and of course what goes for chairs and scooters also goes for accessible rooms).
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Date: 2014-09-13 07:16 pm (UTC)You have some good thoughts in your list, others that occur to me: membership costs for people who need a personal aide/carer with them; and, talked about this on my LonCon report, the cost of hiring mobility equipment - eventually I got cheap wheelchair hire because LonCon arranged low cost hire, but at one point I was looking at hire doubling my costs to attend (and of course what goes for chairs and scooters also goes for accessible rooms).