This summer, Congress passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), which enacted the largest-ever cuts to the Medicaid program. The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office estimates these Medicaid cuts will total $911 billion over the next 10 years. These cuts will jeopardize critical services that millions of persons with disabilities and older persons who rely on to avoid large-scale institutionalization. States will likely have to raise taxes, limit coverage, or reduce or eliminate existing benefits in order to sustain their Medicaid-funded programs. Consequently, persons with disabilities and older persons may lose access to personal care, in-home nursing, and durable medical equipment at a time when hundreds of thousands are on waiting lists for home and community-based services.
Join HPOD, along with the Boston Center for Independent Living and Harvard Law School's Disabled Law Students Association, on October 8th, from 12:20 to 1:20pm U.S. Eastern time, for an online panel event to take stock of recently enacted, unprecedented cuts to critical federal assistance programs and their anticipated effects on persons with disabilities and their families. Panelists will outline the enormous human toll these changes are likely to take and ways to draw greater attention to them.
Moderator: Professor Michael Ashley Stein, HPOD
Panelists: Anne Fracht, Self-Advocacy Associate, HPOD Dianna Hu, President, Board of Trustees, BCIL Dr. Lisa Iezzoni, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Vesper Moore, Chief Operating Officer, Kiva Centers
LOCATION:Zoom STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20251008T162000Z DTEND:20251008T172000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR