[blindlaw] The Census does not track the blind

[Steve P. Deeley]

Wow, I appreciate the information.

Steve

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Pepper" <b75205 at gmail.com>
To: "NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List" <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 7:57 PM
Subject: Re: [blindlaw] The Census does not track the blind


> Stats:
>
> Ok the 54 billion figure came from teh CDC but they changed their website
> but we can reconstruct those figures from other sources.  The CDC keeps
> track of who is blind for what reason and if you go by their figures there
> are a lot more blind people than the government seems to be acknoledging.
> Remember these figures include constructions costs and everything for 
> making
> things accessible on top of the direct costs to the government.
>
> The figure is $566,000 of added cost for each blind person to take care of
> them for their lifetime, over and above any other costs.  I thought it was
> $266,000 but it was $566,000.
> http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/dd/vision3.htm#cost  This report was in 2001 and
> it estimated that the costs of all the people born blind in 2000 would 
> have
> a lifetime cost of 2.5 billion for that year.
>
> The CDC keeps track of eye diseases and statistics of people 40 and over.
>
> 17.2% of that population will get cataracks which is 20.5 million people.
> Macular degeneration leading to blindness is only 1.5% of the population 
> and
> that is aropund 1.7 million people in this age range while macular
> degeneration leading to partial blindness is 6.7% of this over 40 
> population
> or 7.3 million people.  Then you have glaucoma which affects 1.9% or 2.2
> million people.   http://www.nei.nih.gov/eyedata/pbd_tables.asp
>
> Diabetic Retinopathy affects 4 million people in our entire population.
>
> So there is a need for a census to figure out just how much we are 
> spending
> on this and how to improve these vast expenditures.
>
> James G. Pepper
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