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Category Archives: Therapies and Health Care
ACTION ALERT: Call like your life depends on it
The Senate is rushing their Affordable Care Act repeal bill to a vote – and if it passes, disabled people in this country will lose health care in massive numbers. You may have already seen the images yesterday of disabled protesters being dragged out of their wheelchairs and arrested...
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Tagged aca, action, action alert, action alerts, health care, healthcare, Medicaid, obamacare, senate
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ACTION ALERT: Tell the Senate we’re still watching!
The Senate is rushing their ACA repeal bill to a vote THIS MONTH. Some Senators claim that their version of the bill will be better than the version passed by the House – but they’re refusing to show it to us so we can judge for ourselves. The Senate...
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Medicaid Day of Action on June 6th
Many groups around the country have been organizing events to defend health care in America. Now, we’ve all joined forces to declare June 6th a national Day of Action to #SaveMedicaid – and we need YOU to get in on the action. Here’s how you can get involved: If...
Posted in Autistic Community and Allies, Events, News, Policy, Therapies and Health Care
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ACTION ALERT: Your Members of Congress are home – tell them what you think!
In the next two weeks, you have a chance to make a difference for the disability community. Your Members of Congress are back in their home states and districts until next Friday, April 21st. This is a crucial time to remind them that the disability community is still watching....
Posted in Action, News, Policy, Self Advocacy and Representation, Therapies and Health Care
Tagged aca, action alerts, affordable care act, Congress, health care, house of representatives, members of congress, self advocacy, senate, senators, town hall project, town halls
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ACTION ALERT: the clock is ticking to save the Affordable Care Act!
Dear friends, Congress is trying to repeal the Affordable Care Act THIS MONTH – and we need your help to stop them. Contact your Members of Congress and tell them to vote NO on ACA repeal. We asked Congress to show us their plan for replacement. They finally did,...
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ASAN Opposes Seema Verma for CMS
The Autistic Self Advocacy Network calls on Congress to reject the nomination of Seema Verma, a longtime proponent of harmful health care policies, as Director of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Verma’s previous career as a consultant for State Medicaid programs raises serious concerns about her ability...
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ACTION ALERT: Call Congress to End Organ Transplant Discrimination Against People with Disabilities
Dear friends, People with disabilities have a right under the ADA to receive equitable and non-discriminatory treatment by medical professionals. Yet, for years, children and adults with developmental disabilities have been discriminated against by the organ transplant system – despite the fact that their disabilities had no bearing on...
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