People with disabilities are asking the federal government to stop state and hospital policies that they fear will ration care in favor of younger and healthier people.
Ivanova Smith, a woman with an intellectual disability, is one of the individuals on the complaint.
"There's been a long history of people with intellectual, development mental disabilities having our medical care denied," she says."Because we're not seen as valuable. We're not seen as productive or needed. When that's not true. We have people that love us and that care for us. Many people with disabilities work and they do amazing things in their communities but they need that life saving care.
In addition to Washington State, he said he found similar standards in New York, Alabama, Tennessee, Utah, Minnesota, Colorado and Oregon. "Civil rights law you have to stick to," Ne'eman says,"even when that imposes a cost—in time, resources and yes, sometimes even lives."
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