People with disabilities are staging protests in senators’ offices all over the country - Vox

People with disabilities are staging protests in senators’ offices all over the country - Vox: " Disability advocates have another word for it: deadly.

Worried about the proposed cuts to Medicaid in the Senate Republicans’ version of the health care bill, several activists with disabilities staged a sit-in at the Phoenix office of Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) on Wednesday. One protester, Anastasia Bacigalupo, live-streamed her arrest on Facebook as she and two other women being arrested shouted, “I’d rather go to jail than die without Medicaid.” According to AZ Central, four other people were arrested for trespassing."  'via Blog this'