Disability Pride Month: Patrick Cokley on the Impact of Medicaid Cuts

21/07/2025 12 min Episodio 331
Disability Pride Month: Patrick Cokley on the Impact of Medicaid Cuts

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July is Disability Pride Month—a time to not only celebrate the contributions of disabled individuals, but also to examine the systemic challenges they continue to face.As Congress debates sweeping changes to Medicare under “One Big Beautiful Bill,” advocates are raising the alarm about exactly what these cuts could mean for the people that rely on itRadio Catskill’s Jamie Case sat down with Patrick Cokley, Senior Program Officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, to talk about how these proposed cuts could disproportionately impact disabled Americans and how impacted individuals can understand how cuts may impact them.

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