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What Policymakers Don’t Understand About Being Cared For
Every time I see headlines about states cracking down on “fraud” in Medicaid programs, I feel that familiar tightening in my chest. I am not surprised. I am worried, because I know exactly who gets hurt when policymakers start talking about fraud. The public version of the explanation is well known. There is too much…
Tim Shriver’s Letter to RFK Jr. Echoes What Disabled Americans Live Every Day
CW: Institutionalization Some political issues hit close to home. When I first read Tim Shriver’s letter to his cousin, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., it felt deeply personal.Shriver wrote the letter in response to a Justice Department memo that reinterprets the Supreme Court’s Olmstead decision. That decision made clear that disabled people have the…
The Quiet Erosion of Disability Rights
There are millions of disabled people in the country struggling. The fears are real, felt in social media posts, and in the quiet moments when someone is too tired to pretend everything’s fine. It’s a heaviness in the air, a slow unraveling that disabled people can sense immediately. It’s not loud or dramatic. It is…
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