New Disabled South’s Dual: The True Cost of Care series is a look into the personal struggles of disabled in the South. These all-too-familiar stories explore what it means to live at the intersection of Medicare and Medicaid, dealing with a system that provides only fragmented care. Their very survival depends on persistence, community, and courage.
Many residents across the South fall into the Medicare and Medicaid gap, forced to go without accessible health care services.
Hear from a mother and daughter navigating care support in a state that often leaves families out of decisions and treats care as a privilege instead of a right. And the disabled advocate who advises federal officials on disability policy and serves on the state Medicaid board, while navigating the same complicated systems meant to support her.
Find out how thousands of people are being denied access to systems of care that are supposed to be there for them, and how New Disabled South is working to lessen the burden of unnecessary processes currently affecting thousands of southerners.