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Date/Time 17 Mar 2014 4:57:45pm
Continuing the truncation......following Andrew's request.

but they will die from not having food, from living without clothes in cold weather, and from not having a job (if there is no support from friends, family, government). As such, I think it should be in the Medicare basket rather than the NDIS basket - along with the limited psychology and psychiatry already available. Now there is a danger that all the ablebods that for one reason or another can't "get it" will also want to get it on Medicare, but we can debate that one when it arises.

For anyone still reading, I recommend "The Idea of Justice" by Amartya Sen's (Nobel-Prize winning economist-philosopher) and the Tanner Lectures by Martha Nussbaum (Chicago legal philosopher). They have undertaken a thoroughgoing critique of mainstream Economics and Philosophy from the point of view of people with disability and come up with what they call the "capabilities approach". The way I read them, their approach justifies the NDIS.