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Caught in the Crackdown: Disability and the Fight Against Medicaid Fraud
CW: Fraud There is something unsettling about the national conversation around Medicaid. We hear constantly about people who should not be getting something: providers submitting fraudulent bills, companies collecting money for care they never delivered. People are exploiting a program meant for those who need it. There is another reality. Disabled people cannot find caregivers. …
Prayer Cannot Fill an Empty Shift
CW: Injury Yesterday I watched a video about Garet Frey, who is a quadriplegic. He was injured shortly before his fifth birthday. Medicaid allows him to live at home with his mother in Iowa. He has caregivers overnight, but sometimes no one is available. Because of budget cuts, Frey is worried about whether or not…
When the Chatbot Became Her Confidant
CW: Suicide, Epilepsy, & Death Qun Wan was worried about his 31-year-old daughter, Bowen Wan. Wan told her father that she had been tapering off her seizure medication, taking only a quarter of her prescribed dose. She said the medication caused her speech to sound stilted and impaired her cognition. Suddenly, they were in the…
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