Comments on: The view from the other side: Patients, doctors and the power of a camera http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2007/12/19/the-view-from-the-other-side-patients-doctors-and-the-power-of-a-camera/ Disability News | PatriciaEBauer.com Sun, 12 Oct 2008 17:02:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: John North http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2007/12/19/the-view-from-the-other-side-patients-doctors-and-the-power-of-a-camera/#comment-524 John North Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:28:21 +0000 http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2007/12/19/the-view-from-the-other-side-patients-doctors-and-the-power-of-a-camera/#comment-524 To all of the people involved with better living conditions for the disabled: I have something that Uncle Sam could do that could really help out many of us who are wheelchair bound and it costs no governmental agency one cent.The U.S. government needs a law enacted that makes it possible for handicapped individuals to hire a foreign household helper (not care givers). I live in a wheelchair, and I along with many other handicapped people would love to hire a 40-hour-per-week household worker and pay for it ourselves. (especially in the rural parts of the U.S.) We presently have visa classifications to hire computer geeks, baseball pitchers and foreign fashion models but it is nearly impossible for a handicapped person who is willing to pay all the associated costs of a foreign household worker the chance to get such a person. Why a foreign worker? Simple! Because it is next to impossible to hire a local person in a rural area, and a foreign worker would really be a big help to many of us. But the present law makes all of us who need a household worker compete with the employers that hire temporary workers to change the sheets in the hotels/ resorts, and the landscapers or construction workers. Why should we the handicapped who want to and are able to pay our way 100% have to get screwed over as there is no way we can get legal foreign help (not nurses or care givers) but mere household workers. It would be a great benefit to us who are handicapped and it costs the government nothing. Give me your feedback. John North To all of the people involved with better living conditions for the disabled:

I have something that Uncle Sam could do that could really help out many of us who are wheelchair bound and it costs no governmental agency one cent.The U.S. government needs a law enacted that makes it possible for handicapped individuals to hire a foreign household helper (not care givers). I live in a wheelchair, and I along with many other handicapped people would love to hire a 40-hour-per-week household worker and pay for it ourselves. (especially in the rural parts of the U.S.)

We presently have visa classifications to hire computer geeks, baseball pitchers and foreign fashion models but it is nearly impossible for a handicapped person who is willing to pay all the associated costs of a foreign household worker the chance to get such a person.

Why a foreign worker? Simple! Because it is next to impossible to hire a local person in a rural area, and a foreign worker would really be a big help to many of us. But the present law makes all of us who need a household worker compete with the employers that hire temporary workers to change the sheets in the hotels/ resorts, and the landscapers or construction workers.

Why should we the handicapped who want to and are able to pay our way 100% have to get screwed over as there is no way we can get legal foreign help (not nurses or care givers) but mere household workers.

It would be a great benefit to us who are handicapped and it costs the government nothing. Give me your feedback.

John North

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