The legislation also would protect the Medicaid and SSI eligibility of private settlement fund recipients. The House of Representatives version of the bill passed by unanimous voice vote on May 19, 1998. Senate action now awaits. Time limits may put you at a disadvantage and shut you out of the settlement. Hemophilia is a rare blood disease.
Figures vary but about one person in every seventeen thousand has the disease.
Hemophilia is a genetically inherited disease that affects the body's ability to clot blood. If untreated, persons with hemophilia suffer internal bleeding, leading to the destruction of joint and muscle tissue. A hemophiliac does not bleed faster, he bleeds longer. This is due to a lack of a protein that rides on the bloodstream, the same protein that forms a clot after someone is cut. A normal person has sufficient levels of this protein, or factor as it is generally referred to.