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Social Security Disability Insurance: The Compounding Limitations Of Medical Evidence Through The Lens Of Stroke Medicine, Dixon Yang

Dixon Yang

Growing fiscal and administrative challenges elevate the urgency for significant reform in Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI). Further, an aging population places greater future stress on the already backlogged disability adjudicatory system. The Social Security Administration (SSA) has placed great emphasis on accurately and efficiently interpreting the definition of disability through initiatives to strengthen medical qualifications for long-term impairment. Medical evidence, however, is limited because medical professionals may diagnose and evaluate functionality at the time of examination, but long-term predictions are often unclear. While these limitations may be readily acknowledged in the medical and scientific community, they are not properly …