Who Will Pay To Educate Profoundly Disabled Children? – NPR IL

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Astonished
4 years ago

Who will pay? More importantly, who decides that for which payment is required? And who DELIVERS it? For 50 years people waxed in the belief that “we” could afford to ameliorate all the ills of the world. “We” could cure cancer, provide unlimited medical services, end warfare, feed all who could not (or would not) act to feed themselves, or provide a “dignified” life (whatever that subjectively entails) to all, regardless of their own actions or just bad luck. This resulted in high-sounding, emotionally-satisfying pledges to provide all manner of benefits and services to people, especially children, and no one… Read more »

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