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Here’s Brian Calley, the State’s next Lt. Governor, making the case for Autism Insurance Reform. As has been widely pointed out Mr. Calley doeshave a four year old daughter with Autism. Some folks have mistaken this as being his motivation for supporting this legislation … after all, it would help HIS daughter is an argument [...]
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Just A Reminder … That the Conference isn’t until March 12, 2011 but tickets are selling quickly now …. so don’t miss out on the Wrightslaw Special Education Law & Advocacy Early Bird Tickets! The early birds are grabbing up the tickets to the Wrightslaw conference. We did a slow roll out yesterday just to [...]
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Well, the elections of last week are now officially done and in the books. Like that old saying goes “elections have consequences” but before we go marching into our new political term it’s important that we don’t forget the unfinished business that this State Senate still has on the table. We’re in what’s commonly referred [...]
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Not sure how I missed this story last month but wanted to make sure that you didn’t …. Millions of Michigan consumers have paid higher health insurance premiums over the last three years because Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan forced at least 70 hospitals statewide to charge its competitors more, according to a lawsuit [...]
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Last week we had the pleasure of interviewing Lt. Governor candidate Brian Calley. While our original plan was to have a politics heavy show (afterall, he’s a politician and this is an election), it was a story from Mr. Calley in the beginning of the interview, concerning the diagnosis of his young daughter with Autism, [...]
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On last weekend’s radio show we discussed the movie Waiting for “Superman” and the need for education reform. Two weeks ago it was school nutrition with Chef Ann Cooper. In both interviews we discussed the need to hold politicians accountable for their promises. So with that in mind this weekend we’ll be interviewing Brian Calley [...]
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Two years ago we did a Wrightslaw Special Education Law Conference and it was an overwhelming success. Five hundred parents and professionals attended for a day full of information, strategies and explanations. In the months that followed we were overwhelmed with stories of parents that were able to get help for their children that had [...]
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On Sunday, August 1st we had the opportunity to interview MI Gubernatorial hopeful Rick Snyder. We were able to hit many topics that, based on reader and listener feedback, you told us were important to you and other parents and grandparents out there including: business leadership vs political leadership, education, public private partnerships in education, [...]
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We really appreciated the opportunity to interview Michigan Gubenatorial candidate Pete Hoekstra last weekend. This weekend we have a confirmation for an interview with Mike Bouchard and are working out the details on two other possible MI Gov candidate interviews. I hope you enjoy the interview and will confirm the guests for this week’s show [...]
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I support the idea of Autism Insurance legislation. But I’ll confess that I struggle with it…quite a bit actually. I consider myself a libertarian leaning conservative so in my opinion the smaller, less intrusive we can get our government to be the better. So, for obvious reasons my support of the idea of mandated Autism [...]
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Gerard Mantese (Mantese, Honigman, Rossman and Williamson) and John J. Conway are on the front lines of the Autism Insurance fight in the state of Michigan. However, unlike those that are fighting for legislation to require Autism coverage these lawyers are fighting in the courtrooms to get the Insurance companies to cover the children that, [...]
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We aired our interview with Lorri Unumb from Autism Speaks this past Sunday, however, we weren’t able to cover everything that we wanted to. You see Lorri was extremely gracious to move her schedule around to allow us the opportunity to pre-record our interview with her last week for our Sunday show. Originally the plan [...]
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On Sunday June 6th we discussed the raging debate over Autism Insurance. It’s a battle raging in the courts, classrooms, therapy centers, doctors offices, legislator’s offices ….. and living rooms across this country, including right here in Michigan. The battle is being fought by parents on two fronts. On the first front is the push [...]
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This weekend on The My Great Kid Radio show we’ll be talking about Autism Insurance from two angles: Autism Insurance Lawsuits – Blue Cross Blue Shield has suffered two significant losses in the past year concerning their mistreatment of children with Autism. This weekend we’ll be talking to the lawyer that beat them in those [...]
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Insurance News – Blue Cross to Pay $125,000 in Ground-Breaking Settlement for Autism Care It’s not getting much (any?) attention anywhere in the media but yesterday the ground shifted in the Autism Insurance battle that’s been battling for years in states across this country. When you buy insurance you buy it to protect yourself from [...]
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No Long Term Benefit To Delaying Vaccines, Study Finds Hmmmm, what’s this….. a study looking at the effects of vaccines? That’s an interesting finding ….. They report in the June issue of the journal Pediatrics that children who were vaccinated following the recommended immunization schedule exhibited better verbal skills, had higher IQs and were less [...]
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