The Affordable Care Act (ACA) expanded Medicaid eligibility for seniors and people with disabilities. These new programs, along with existing Medicaid services provide a critical path to both healthcare and long-term care, including home and community-based services for more than 10 million children and adults over 6 million seniors who have a disability. Medicaid also helps some people with disabilities work and pay taxes.
For more information see these articles from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities:
Alana Theriault Transcript (DOCX)
Atlantic Documentary: The Disabled Fight for Health Care
This short, hard-hitting report contextualizes the current controversy with other interviews featuring Mary Lou Breslin, Stacey Milbern, Alana Theriault, Tammy Duckworth, Judith Heumann and compelling video of National ADAPT’s protests interspersed with historic footage from the HHS sit-in and DREDF’s The Power of 504 video.
Abolishing Medicaid/ACA would severely hurt the elderly and individuals with disabilities to maintain living independently. It will also cause financial hardship for those individuals in nursing homes. Please put aside personal and political issues and work together to modified the current ACA that will be sustainable for all individuals. It’s time for America to stop claiming to be the best country and prove to the people that we are the best country.
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