Healthcare
Neurodivergent individuals need the health care advances of today to live better lives. Regulatory issues such as professional licensing backlogs and outdated regulation towards medical technology could put these goals out of reach. Additional issues such as long wait times by insurance companies, excessive peer reviews by insurance boards, and barriers to proper Medicaid reimbursement are also issues.
- Protecting privacy but providing better regulations to create new advances in Autism care:
- Increased access to tele-health in urban and rural areas.
- Making applied behavioral analysis more accessible.
- Allowing for entrepreneurs to create new advances.
- Support funding for new research that benefits:
- Early intervention for Autism treatment. <-support ABA programs, research efficacy of other treatments that seem less valuable but are used frequently due to reduced cost from ABA
- Improved treatment outcomes for borderline cases (Aspergers).
- Improvements to treatment diagnostics.
- Research that is meant to help the neurodivergent live better lives.
- Working to help insurance companies to stop claim denials.
- Working with state commissioners of insurance to stop arbitrary and capricious denials.
- Reaching out to insurance company boards to show the value of proven treatments such as ABA, etc. <-and access to ABA funding treatment for borderline ‘aspergers’ individuals and those with ADHD or other similar overlapping concerns.
- Ending the backlogs affecting states on professional licensures
- Encouraging states to improve their practices for processing professional licenses.
- Following best practices made by other states to ensure therapists are licensed timely.
- Support of an interstate compact for therapists.
