John Edwards addresses the need to cover asperger's

[goddess40]

He was making a speech and he mention that insurance must cover Autism and Asperger's.

[KamaAina]

1. Edwards Autism Plan

http://blog.johnedwards.com/story/2007/10/26/103737/21

"Autism is a quiet crisis, affecting an astonishing 1 in 150 children and four times as many boys as girls. Nobody knows why diagnoses have risen tenfold just over the past decade.

We need to find the causes so we can help protect our children. The National Institutes of Health have concluded that childhood vaccines are not the cause, but many families are not convinced. As president, I will double funding for autism research, issue an all-hands-on deck challenge and follow the results wherever the science takes us.

We also need to take better care of children affected today. My plan for universal health care, guaranteed coverage of autism care in Medicaid and private insurance, and better investments in special education and home health workers will assist families to support and treat children with autism and help children, and adults, reach their full potential.

We should also invest more in recruiting, training and paying sufficiently teachers, therapists, psychologists and others working in the special education field. It's time to finally get on a path to fully funding special education.

This is an area I've been involved with for a long time. I started fighting to help families with autism when I first arrived in the Senate. One of the very first bills I introduced and help make law was the Fragile X Breakthrough Research Act, which provided new resources for a genetic condition that results in autism for thousands of children. We passed the bill into law, providing new resources for research devoted to Fragile X."

John Edwards

[goddess40]

2. Dr. Phil had a show about autism and aspergers today

and he talked about vaccines as well, the expert said while there is no proof that ingredients in vaccines cause autism, there also isn't any proof that they don't.

[Demeter]

5. My Dear Goddess, You Can't Prove a Negative

If you can't show cause and effect, you can't show anything.

It's a logical fallacy. "A" implies "B" can be true, but that DOESN'T mean that automatically "B" implies "A".

The only automatic implication is that "not B" implies "not A"

Example:


Water is wet. But not all wet things are water.

This is water, therefore it is wet. True.

This is wet, therefore it is water. Not necessarily. Could be blood, or juice, or liquid lead or paint or....

But: "This is not wet, therefore it is not water" would be a true conclusion.

If it's ice, or steam, then all bets are off!

[TrogL]

6. Bravo, I like your example better than mine

All cows are blue.
My dog is blue.
Therefore my dog is a cow.

It's the fallacy of the undivided middle.

[Kajsa]

3. Thanks, KamaAina!

I really like John Edwards.

This just adds to my reasons to vote for him in
the primaries.

Merry Christmas to you and everyone here!

:hi: :hug:

[Kajsa]

4. Thanks, Goddess40.

Thanks for posting this.

:hi: :hug: