Over the last few months, I’ve written several newsletters I didn’t originally plan on writing when I started this endeavor. Those have been about disabled people’s fight for Medicaid funding. I wrote those newsletters because the people I interviewed for my deep-dive newsletter series — from Sandra Lomeli to Katie Cummings to Incemirra Pole — explained to me how necessary those Medicaid funds are in their disabled loved ones’ quality of life.
Since the federal budget resolution bill passed in July, with an estimated $911 billion cut to Medicaid, a lot of people seem to be in a holding pattern. And that’s because there’s a lot of uncertainty involved. Advocates don’t know how the cuts are going to affect their programs. Disabled people don’t know if they’ll have to work longer hours due to working requirements, and, if so, how that will even work since the cuts might affect accommodations that make them able to work — like job coaches and transportation.
But, while funding sources an…
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