{"id":5040,"date":"2025-07-02T23:02:23","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T23:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/02\/why-latoya-maddox-puts-her-body-on-the-line-americans-with-disabilities\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T23:02:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T23:02:23","slug":"why-latoya-maddox-puts-her-body-on-the-line-americans-with-disabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/02\/why-latoya-maddox-puts-her-body-on-the-line-americans-with-disabilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Why this activist is putting her body on the line for Americans with disabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Why this activist is putting her body on the line for Americans with disabilities<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Flanked by her friends as lawmakers debated the future of a 60-year-old health care plan, Latoya Maddox raised her voice, shouting, \u201cNo cuts to Medicaid! No cuts to Medicaid!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The chanting, during a meeting of the House Energy and Commerce Committee on May 13, quickly earned her and her fellow disabled activists in the room a rough escort out by Capitol Police. \u201cA man just came over and started yanking on our chairs, like yanking them to the point where we thought we were gonna get knocked out of them. I was like, you\u2019re gonna break the chair!\u201d said Maddox, who uses a power wheelchair.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/07\/02\/why-latoya-maddox-puts-her-body-on-the-line-americans-with-disabilities\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Read the rest\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    O. Rose Broderick<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/07\/02\/why-latoya-maddox-puts-her-body-on-the-line-americans-with-disabilities\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why this activist is putting her body on the line for Americans with disabilities Flanked by her friends as lawmakers debated the future of a 60-year-old health care plan, Latoya Maddox raised her voice, shouting, \u201cNo cuts to Medicaid! No cuts to Medicaid!\u201d The chanting, during a meeting of the House Energy and Commerce Committee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2158,2238,1428,2214,2151,2144,2152],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-5040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-disability","category-health","category-medicaid","category-policy","category-politics","category-stat","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5040"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}