Disability Laws - Not for the Disabled

I really didn't know anything about Disability until my daughter was put on it due to having leukemia and the bone marrow transplant. This gives you a certain income a month (depending on how much you've earned) and you also get Medicare. It also means that if/when you are able to work, you can only earn a certain amount of income. This means that you live basically at the poverty level. About two years ago, Cristina's case came up for review. We got an attorney, but she was taken off disability. The "reason" given was that she was taking salsa lessons, so she didn't need disability. The fact of the matter is that it was doctor's "orders" that she do some form of exercise.

Steroids, which she was on for many years is muscle wasting and exercise is extremely important. We appealed the case for a year until, we reached the last court possible. Their decision was that since she no longer had leukemia that she didn't need disability. This has left Cristina with the need to work full time and the impossibility of getting medical coverage because of her "pre existing" condition. The Disability law is such that there is NO room for people who are partially disabled, like Cristina. She is managing to work full time, but that means she has little energy for any kind of life other than work. Worse still, she has no health insurance. What are people supposed to do? How can the richest country in the world do this to its people? How much more does she have to struggle? There seems to be no end in sight. They say that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger... Can't get too much stronger than Cristina then!