If Trump repeals the ACA, insurance won’t cover our medical treatments, aids, or procedures. It’s likely that SSDI (many people’s only source of income) will be taken away, other benefits will have a work requirement that is impossible for most disabled people to meet, educational protections will be removed for disabled students, prices of medication (that we need to live) will go up, the list goes on.

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The Social Safety Net for Disabled People Is Broken

The Center for American Progress interviewed disabled people who had been through the American Ninja Warrior obstacle course that is the bureaucratic process of applying for disability benefits. If I may summarize their experience in one sentence, it would be: The dehumanization is the point.

These folks described how they were treated like criminals and frauds; evaluated by unqualified medical professionals; judged by people who had no idea what their disability entailed; and how they spent money they didn’t have on lawyers just to access basic ADA protections.

ableism rant under the cut

are likely to receive a lot of scam calls, letters, and so on from people claiming to be "verifying their information" in the near future. The offices responsible for investigating and stopping this form of fraud are all under threat, and DOGE's existence renders leaks of enrollment information likely.

I recommend warning vulnerable friends and family members about this, and - in the case of those who are especially likely to get confused - possibly checking in once a week or so about "calls from the government".