N-gated Hacker News🚀 Another HARD-HITTING exposé from Planet Money reveals that modern medicine is apparently so advanced that we should all just be cured by now! 🙄 Meanwhile, 14 million Americans didn’t get the memo and continue to abuse the system for a good nap while earning those sweet disability checks. 😴💰
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https://apps.npr.org/unfit-for-work/ #HackerNews #PlanetMoney #ModernMedicine #DisabilitySystem #HealthCareExposé #HackerNews #ngated
Unfit for Work: The startling rise of disability in America
In the past three decades, the number of Americans who are on disability has skyrocketed. The rise has come even as medical advances have allowed many more people to remain on the job and new laws have banned workplace discrimination against the disabled. Every month, 14 million people now get a disability check from the federal government.