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Poised to take advantage

People with disabilities and their supporters protesting proposed Medicaid spending cuts in Washington, D.C.

Posted on December 10, 2018

With the midterm elections behind us, disability advocates face an opportunity to make significant legislative gains.

The conventional wisdom holds that gridlock will dominate the 116th U.S. Congress, which begins in January 2019. With a GOP majority in the Senate and a Democrat-controlled House of Representatives, both parties are poised to block each other’s most polarizing bills. But because there will likely be little movement on contentious agenda items, space will open up for other issues to come to the fore. The disability community is uniquely poised to take advantage.

Many disability-related policies were not only front and center in the midterm elections – several unified Democratic and Republican voters.

This entry was posted in accessibility, Americans with Disabilities Act, civil rights, Health and Wellness, politics, self-advocacy and tagged ACA, health care, medicaid, medicare.