Opinion: Disability Reform Needed With Health Reform

Although the "pervasive problem of bad faith denials by disability insurers" has been "largely absent" in the debate over health reform, disability reform should not be ignored because "there are strong parallels between the disability and health insurance markets," argues Brietta Clark, a professor of law at Loyola Law School and a member of the LACMA-LACBA Joint Committee on Biomedical Ethics. She concludes, "Without meaningful reform, people already struggling to cope with disabling medical conditions will continue to suffer preventable and potentially irreparable financial and health consequences."

• "The Missing Piece of Health Care Reform" (Clark, Los Angeles Daily Journal, 10/27).