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Could Health-Care Cuts Cost Disabled Americans Their Freedom?
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July 10, 2017
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10:10Now PlayingRecently, 43 disabled protesters were arrested outside of Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell's office, and the clips went viral on social media. Since then, activists have kept up the pressure on the Republican health bill with similar actions across the country. For this short documentary, The Atlantic traveled to the heart of the disability rights movement in the San Francisco Bay Area to learn why some disabled people fear the bill. Mary Lou Breslin of the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund says cuts to Medicaid could ultimately cost 3 million disabled people their freedom, and erode "40 years of hard won gains by the disability rights movement."
For more, read 'Why Americans With Disabilities Fear Medicaid Cuts' here
This documentary was produced as a project for the USC Center for Health Journalism’s California Fellowship.
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