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Why do conservatives hate Medicaid so much? What has Medicaid ever done to them to make them feel so threatened by its existence? Maybe what offends them so deeply about [...]

Once a month, Ed got a haircut. An expensive haircut. It cost half his monthly income. There was nothing fancy about Ed's haircut. No frosted tips or anything like that. [...]

The article focuses on the financial strain and challenges associated with long-term care, proposing a shift from capitalism to socialism for a fairer and more supportive system. It discusses personal experiences with caregivers, the limitations of existing Medicaid programs, and the need for comprehensive societal commitment to providing free and swift home and community assistance.

The article discusses risk of losing public support received by disabled people who want to be married. Topics include supporting people with disabilities is considered a private, family responsibility; disabled people in some states in America get paid for the support they need to live in their communities; disabled people who are married to their supporter are not authorized to get the fund amount.

In this article, the author calls for spending less on nursing homes, which remain the sole housing option available to some people with disabilities in the ongoing crisis of COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. It mentions that State governments have the option of creating home and community assistance programs that use Medicaid money in a way that provides people with disabilities with the support they need without going into a nursing home.

The author focuses on poll from media company Bloomberg which revealed president Donald Trump had said and done and voters finding disturbing was mocking of disabled reporter Serge Kovaleski. Topics discussed include effort of Trump and Republicans to obliterate the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Medicaid funding which has been open-ended and orders from Trump to allow employers defer deducting payroll taxes in response to coronavirus pandemic.

The article offers information on the shortage of the direct care workers, who helps a disable person, due to the COVID-19. It further discusses providing care for people with disabilities are diminished by association; "The Case for Inclusion 2020" report by the United Cerebral Palsy and the ANCOR Foundation on how well states and the District of Columbia, U.S. are supporting their residents with intellectual and developmental disabilities through programs such as Medicaid.

The article reflects on the advantage and disadvantage of conducting a demonstration or protest in the U.S. It discusses the author's experience of being a protester who wants to express his freedom of speech. It relates the demonstration of people with disabilities in front of the White House that resulted into the initiative, Money Follows the Person (MFP). It discusses the positive impact of the MFP on people with disabilities and the states.

The article talks about the conditions and laws for disabled people in the U.S. Topics discussed include selection of Tammy Duckworth as junior United States Senator for Illinois, speaker of the United States House of Representatives Paul Ryan's disabled Americans, and Medicaid programs for reducing medical costs and improve care of disabled citizens of U.S.

Comments on state policies limiting home care services to the disabled. New York Governor George Pataki's plan to reduce the state budget for Medicaid; Opposition of activists to the policies on home care; Federal mandate for states to provide certain minimum services for people on Medicaid.

Uncovers Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) scam in Illinois. Sales agents' tactics; Campaign rally to ban HMO door-to-door solicitations.