If they do this, we're basically going to be in the Civil War days with peg legs.
Jordan Thomas says he’s not a proponent of hyperbole just to make a point. But with this issue, he doesn’t see any other way to describe it.
“The sky is falling,” he said.
Thomas, a graduate of McCallie School, is the founder of the Jordan Thomas Foundation, which provides child amputees with prostheses. He’s been a strong proponent of rights for amputees since age 16, when he lost both legs from the calf down in a boating accident.
What Thomas and thousands of amputees are upset about is a proposed draft of Medicare’s Local Coverage Determination Article on Lower Limb Prostheses.