Six months after Jorge and I watched Donald Trump’s inauguration, people with disabilities were lying sprawled on the floor outside Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s office. It was a die-in, organized by ADAPT. In a full-blown attempt to repeal Obama’s Affordable Care Act, the Senate had developed an alternative healthcare plan, and it included deep cuts to Medicaid. Without the medical care and services funded by Medicaid, ten million disabled people faced the real possibility of having to live in institutions. This “die-in” was just one of the protests the disability activists had
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