People keep saying, “It won’t affect the truly disabled.” Tell me you’ve never loved someone with a disability without telling me. Medicaid isnt “free stuff.” For so many families, it’s the reason their child gets to come home from the hospital. The reason their child was able to recieve care in the first place. It’s oxygen supplies. Wheelchairs. Nursing. Therapies. Medications. Feeding tube supplies. Specialized formula. The ability to keep our children at home instead of in institutions. It means our children got to sleep in their own beds, surrounded by people who love them. These aren’t luxury services. They’re basic needs. It’s for the little one who can’t speak but has so much to say. The kid who needs a nurse to safely go to school. The adult with disabilities whose entire independence depends on the support they receive. It’s parents who haven’t slept through the night in years because they’re providing around-the-clock care when their nursing gets cut. As a medical mom, I can tell you this community has never been asking for luxury. We’ve been fighting for the basics. The chance for our children to live with dignity. And the loudest opinions are almost always coming from people who’ve never had to fight an insurance company while their child was in the hospital waiting for a surgery they need. Never had to choose between paying the mortgage and paying for medical supplies. Never had to leave a career because no daycare can safely care for their child. You don’t get to call disabled people a burden while expecting their exhausted families to somehow do even more with even less. We’re already doing everything. And disability isn’t some rare thing that only happens to “other families.” One diagnosis. One accident. One complicated pregnancy. One stroke. One drunk driver. That’s all it takes before you’re praying the very programs you once dismissed are still there. Maybe that’s what hurts the most. So many people don’t care until disability affects them. By then, they’ll understand what families like ours have been trying to say all along.-"They're not taking away home care." I keep seeing people say that. As the mother of a disabled child, I need you to understand that many of us barely have home care to begin with. My son had a 10-hour surgery on June 11. He's 250 pounds. In the hospital it took 3-4 staff members, a Hoyer lift, and a Sara Stedy just to move him safely. At home, it's just me. We don't qualify for a Hoyer lift. We don't qualify for full-time home health. We were told we could buy the equipment ourselves for hundreds of dollars after I'd already missed weeks of work. His abdominal incision has opened back up and become infected. His wound requires packing every day. We qualified for 20 minutes of home health twice a week for wound care—but if we accepted that, we couldn't receive the physical therapy we desperately needed to learn how to move him safely at home. So I had to choose: Protect his wound, or learn how to safely lift and transfer my 250-pound son. No parent should ever have to make that choice. This is the reality disability families are already living. Before anyone says our rights aren't being affected, please understand that many of us have been fighting just to access basic care all along. We don't need less support. We need a system that actually supports the people it's supposed to serve.