In any effort at Healthcare Reform, there is a major issue to be addressed--parity in coverage for ALL conditions, diseases, and treatments, including mental health (which is a very big one). This diary focuses on parity for durable medical equipment, which includes prosthetic limbs for amputees.
Many Kossacks know that I am a partial leg amputee--the technical term is RBK or right BKA, which is a right below-knee amputee (or baloney amputee among friends--call me Oscar Mayer). Under our deteriorating insurance system, coverage for prosthetic limbs has become a significant hardship for thousands of amputees and their families.
More after the jump (OK, more of a stumble in my case)...
