When politicians say the cuts are only about fraud, waste, and abuse you have to read between the lines.
The problem is that the cuts they’re proposing go far beyond just targeting fraud, waste, or people who could be working. There simply isn’t enough fraud or able-bodied adults in the system to account for the size of these cuts.
States get to decide how they spend their Medicaid dollars. But unlike the federal government, states are legally required to balance their budgets. When the federal government slashes funding, it’s not just numbers on a page, it’s real people who pay the price.
And here’s the truth: when states are forced to cut spending, they start with the people who need the most care. That means families like mine - families caring for profoundly disabled family members who can’t talk, walk, bathe, or eat on their own - will be the first to lose access to care, support, and help at home.
Even though there are laws saying that disabled individuals have a right to have care at home (which is less expensive for taxpayers, by the way), in practice, states can say they have a “waitlist” and so they are technically in compliance without funding the care.
So while this bill doesn’t say it’s cutting disability care, that’s exactly what it does. Not in theory. In reality. Please tell your legislators not to cut Medicaid this deeply.
Why don’t they stop funding pet projects and kickbacks to their cronies instead???
Recall campaigns are exploding!! 2025 is going to be the year they regret picking a fight with the disabled community
#recallgress #recalllivingston #recallcarbone #recallmontenegro
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A group of parents of children with disabilities push to recall lawmakers in the state House of Representatives who were accused of blocking attempts to fund the Division of Developmental Disabilities after the program faced a budget shortfall.
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Disease. Abuse. Overcrowding.
These are just a few of the atrocities behind the furtive walls of the Willowbrook State School in Staten Island from the early 1950s until the late 1970s.
Hepatitis was injected into patients and rampant overcrowding led to dreadful conditions for the mentally handicapped in the facility. Its future was drastically revised following an investigative report from Geraldo Rivera in the 1970s.
WE WILL NOT GO BACKWARDS. We will FIGHT and PROTECT the disabled community, #disabilityawareness
In an unsigned, three-page opinion, the justices simply sent the second case—O’Connor-Ratcliff v. Garnier—back to the lower courts to reconsider the case in light of the court’s findings in Lindke.
In O’Connor-Ratcliff v. Garnier, a lower court judge found that the actions of two trustees of the Poway Unified School District, who blocked two parents after they criticized them on their personal social media accounts, constituted government action.
