{"id":5,"date":"2010-02-20T09:54:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-20T09:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/waiting.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/more-than-1000-disabled-in-n-j-could-lose-benefits-from-cash-strapped-traumatic-brain-injury-fund.html"},"modified":"2010-02-20T09:54:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-20T09:54:00","slug":"more-than-1000-disabled-in-n-j-could-lose-benefits-from-cash-strapped-traumatic-brain-injury-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/waiting.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/more-than-1000-disabled-in-n-j-could-lose-benefits-from-cash-strapped-traumatic-brain-injury-fund.html","title":{"rendered":"More Than 1,000 Disabled in N.J. Could Lose Benefits From Cash-Strapped Traumatic Brain Injury Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"Roughly 1,300 disabled people in New Jersey could lose treatment and services because of budget cuts impacting the state\u2019s Traumatic Brain Injury Fund. <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2010\/02\/nj_assembly_committee_discuss.html\">http:\/\/www.nj.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2010\/02\/nj_assembly_committee_discuss.html<\/a><br \/><br \/>A New Jersey Assembly committee met Thursday to talk about possible ways to raise more money for the fund. In order to keep within the fund\u2019s yearly $3.4 million budget, some officials have recommended that the fund only serve those who sustained a blow to the head, not those who suffered brain injury from a stroke, tumor or other type of trauma.<br \/><br \/>If that change were made, 60 percent of the 2,000 people who now get services from the program would be ineligible for it.<br \/><br \/>One of the solutions being considered is raising the 50-cent surcharge on car registrations that funds the program now.<br \/><br \/>Recipients who would be cut off from the Traumatic Brain Injury Fund are understandingly upset, as described in this well-done human interest story by The Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J.   <br \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2010\/02\/state_brain_injury_fund.html\">http:\/\/www.nj.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2010\/02\/state_brain_injury_fund.html<\/a><br \/><br \/>The story talks about the case of Michael Jankowsky of Toms River, who got stabbed in the heart trying to protect a friend 25 years ago. His brain didn\u2019t get oxygen, and he suffered brain damage. He needs constant care, at age 45. <br \/><br \/>\u201cHe uses a wheelchair, slurs his speech, and struggles to concentrate,\u201d The Ledger writes. \u201cHe has made progress over the past few years, his mother says, thanks to New Jersey\u2019s Traumatic Brain Injury Fund, which paid for speech therapy and other treatments not covered by insurance.\u201d<br \/><br \/>The story goes on, \u201cThat could end soon. The Brain Injury Fund is going broke, and the state wants to limit whom it helps to people whose brain damage came from a direct blow to the head.\u201d <br \/><br \/>This is absurd.  The issue is whether the brain is injured, not what mechanism of injury caused it.  Some of the most serious of brain injuries don&#8217;t involve any blow to the head and as high as 50% of concussions do as well.  See <a href=\"http:\/\/subtlebraininjury.com\">http:\/\/subtlebraininjury.com<\/a> for more on the mechanical forces which cause brain injury.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roughly 1,300 disabled people in New Jersey could lose treatment and services because of budget cuts impacting the state\u2019s Traumatic Brain Injury Fund. http:\/\/www.nj.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2010\/02\/nj_assembly_committee_discuss.htmlA New Jersey Assembly committee met Thursday to talk about possible ways to raise more money for the fund. 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