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30 Dec 2014, 11:04 am

BenSwann.com wrote:
...While the [U.S. Court of Federal Claims Office of Special Masters, the so-called vaccine court] requires claims to be resolved within a 240 day period, less than 7 percent of 7,876 claims not involving autism met this deadline. Cases involving autism claims were resolved in less than 240 days only 4.5 percent of the time. While non-autism claims drag on for an average of two and a half years, the other cases average more than three years. Hundreds of cases have taken longer than ten years and some people died while waiting to be compensated....

REPORT: Vaccine Court Keeps Thousands of Injured Families Waiting for Compensation
http://www.benswann.com/report-vaccine- ... mpensation


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30 Dec 2014, 11:06 am

In other words, many cases "drag on," whether autism-related or otherwise.

We all know the proclivity for the judicial system to proceed at a snail's pace.

Charles Dickens wrote a satire which dealt, partially, with judicial cases which drag on for years and years. It was called "Bleak House."



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30 Dec 2014, 11:12 am

kraftiekortie wrote:
In other words, all the cases "drag on."

Charles Dickens wrote a satire which dealt, partially, with judicial cases which last years and years. It was called "Bleak House."

I like Dickens. I am almost finished reading Michael Patrick Hearn's The Annotated Christmas Carol. The notes are fascinating!

My own (physical) disability claim spent 12 years in the Social Security Administration courts before it was finally settled. I started calling this tactic "shaking the trees." The tactic shakes loose all those individuals who can't hang on during the looong, tedious and humiliating process. They have claimants complete and file the same forms over and over for years; one slip up and you are required to start all over.

Isn't bureaucracy wonderful?


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30 Dec 2014, 11:44 am

Yep....The "shaking the tree" analogy is most apt.



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30 Dec 2014, 12:17 pm

kraftiekortie wrote:
Yep....The "shaking the tree" analogy is most apt.

It is the one thing that made me angriest at the government-assistance scheme. For people (especially individuals) who don't understand the red tape or can't afford lawyers, they get shaken loose and never get the help that they need (and paid for in spades through previous taxes). As is admitted constantly, too many of them end up being homeless.

I persisted for 12 years mostly on behalf of others. I wasn't going to go quietly. Maybe that is why I like autism advocacy. Who knows?


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