Weaponize Capitalism to destroy "Autism Clinics"
So there was a post earlier about the increasing amount of money being spent on ABA "clinics"
And well that annoyed the ever loving fuck out of my soul!
# SO I PRESENT: DEATH OF THE ABA VIA WEAPONIZED CAPITALISM!!!
First fun fact, the main reason ABA clinics are still heavily funded despite the constant fucking protest of everyone is they are more or less the only "recognized treatment". Why does being a recognized treatment matter? Well its illegal for insurance companies to deny recognized treatment without an alternative.
The main place you can see this has been weaponized by the pharmaceutical industry is in modern drug approvals. Where targeting conditions with used but not FDA approved drugs/medical devices makes it difficult for insurance to avoid paying for the new expensive drugs. See crohn's. The insurance step therapy for treatment is just "give steroids" and/or "something else" prior to biologics. Which usually just means give steroids and ignore the second option. That is completely not how it is treated globally but how it is functionally treated in the US. Most other countries require trying a long term DMARD or immune suppressive drug because they are fuck loads cheaper.
So what we need to do is provide insurance companies an off ramp to allow them to require a "step therapy" before paying for ABA therapy. Since ABA therapy costs an ungodly amount of money 10K. This actually gives us some EXTREME laterals as to what we can invent.
# MY PROPOSAL!!
**AUSTISTIC STIM TOYS!!!!**
**NO LONGER SHALL OUR YOUNGER PEERS NEED TO SUFFER FROM LACK OF TEXTURES TO RUB!!!**
All we have to do is create a medical device and pay for a study to show it reduces incidents of autistic self harm! Submit it to the FDA for medical device approval and BOOM. VALID RECOGNIZED ALTERNATIVE TREATMENT. We just simply need to let kids stim out there feelings without resorting to the forbidden but endlessly alluring desire to smash our faces into the wall.
Given our competitions price is 10k, we can even pay to have our young autistic brethren be taught how to properly STIM EVILY. We can use these device education classes to also explain to parents what autism is actually is. And how to safely allow there kids to use there stim toys. Spend time identifying the best stim toys for the child. Customizing the stim toys etc. Allowing us to abuse the medical device training loopholes to approve "parental education" as a recognized and specific medical service!!!
Given that ABA therapists have 0 fucking actual transferable skills and the employees can do nothing but abuse children, the companies should approach insolvency within a year or two of insurance companies mandating step therapy with stim toys before moving onto ABA therapy.
It will take a fuck load less energy then convincing the US government to actual end ABA therapy. Simply bankrupt these fuck stains. Two birds one textured stone.