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Lisa Geiszler's avatar

As a chronically ill, disabled woman, I totally agree. Also, many people on Medicaid are working but their jobs won’t give them enough hours for full time & benefits or their pay is so low. There is this idea that if you are on Medicaid you are t working but I think it’s also important for people to understand, it’s this brutal vampire capitalism system that is not working.

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Emily Ladau's avatar

For sure - the system is designed to fail people.

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Dot Nary's avatar

Thank you for this excellent piece! That false dichotomy between disabled and "able-bodied" in the context of the ability to work is so outdated, and simply wrong. I appreciate your strong statement that it is systemic barriers that most often prevent people with disabilities from contributing, and that quacks like Oz ignore. Brava!

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Emily Ladau's avatar

It means a lot that you read it, Dot! My wish is that we'd do away with the able-bodied/disabled dichotomy altogether and recognize that existence isn't about binaries.

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