The lives of many, if not most, people with disabilities depend on federal programs.

[KamaAina]

Income comes from SSI. Healthcare, including personal attendants, comes from Medicaid. Housing comes from Section 8. And so on. Even independent living centers like the one I worked for are primarily federally funded.

All this could be gone by this time next year. Where does that leave us?

edit: The hell of it is that quite a few of us voted for Orange Julius Caesar.

[Kingofalldems]

1. They're going to try and shove Ayn Rand down America's throat.

[KamaAina]

3. We used to call them "Randroids" in college.

We thought they were kind of funny. It never occurred to us that one day they'd be running the show.

[Different Drummer]

2. I'm in that boat myself and if all of that is gone...

we are going to be in one helluva mess, that's for sure.

[NCTraveler]

4. It leaves us with a guy who mocks people with disabilities as President.

Reading things like this makes me fume at people like the mentally bankrupt Stein who promoted Clinton and Trump as being similar.

Those who need us most will be hurt the worse.

[HassleCat]

5. Living on the brink of disaster.

You are so right. For many disabled citizens, a small cut in benefits would mean a large increase in everyday difficulty. Some might even be mortally threatened. If I have to "adopt" a disabled person, I guess I will. I'm already planning to adopt a couple family members whose retirement income will call short.

[FarCenter]

6. Good point. We need to stop pretending that medical programs are insurance for healthy people

About one half of medical expenditures occur in the last 18 months of life.

Another quarter of medical expenses are for premature births, birth defects, lifelong support of congenital illness, and chronic diseases acquired later in life, such as congestive heart failure, kidney failure, type II diabetes, etc.

Only a minor part of medical expenditures are incurred by people who are sick or injured and then cured or healed.

Support for terminal and chronic illnesses should be appropriated out of general tax revenues, instead of being loaded into health insurance plan premiums.

[airplaneman]

7. bingo we have a winner n/t.

[standingtall]

8. Worst than people currently on SSI/SSDI

Are people who become disabled over the next 4 years. I would be willing bet republicans are going to ratchet up their war on SSI/SSDI approvals. Such people will not be getting assistance at all. They might even try to squeeze in a work requirement for medicaid. Like the scumbag governor of Kentucky has proposed doing.

[resistance2016]

9. I will die alone and homeless, and soon.

I've been trying to get approved for SSDI for five years now due to depression. Now, I know I'll never get it. I will die alone and homeless, and within the next few years. Because of this, I am furious. I have white supremacists to thank for this. White goddamn supremacists, who claim to be "my" people. "My" people killed me, so in return, I will treat them like the useless, parasitic SHIT they are, until I die.