Disability News November 8, 2025
Editor's Note: The disability community is increasingly preferring to use identity-first language (disabled person) in place of person-first language (person with a disability). This is because many in the community view disability as being a core component of identity, much like race and gender. Some members of the community, such as people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, still prefer person-first language. Both should be considered valid. Articles shared in this newsletter may contain one or the other (or both) depending on the author's preference, and if they themselves have a disability.
ACA Premium Spikes Will Derail Disabled People’s Careers by Molly Weston Williamson, Natasha Murphy and Mia Ives-Rublee on November 6, 2025 at The Center for American Progress
"Now that 2026 Affordable Care Act (ACA) open enrollment is underway, millions of Americans are finding that their marketplace premiums are dramatically more expensive. Congress’ failure to extend the ACA’s enhanced premium tax credits has caused net premium costs to more than double nationwide for enrollees who receive financial assistance."
Kate Caldwell: How our health information can be used to criminalize us on September 24, 2025 at the Chicago Tribune
"In July, the Donald Trump administration unveiled two policies: the “Making Health Technology Great Again” initiative and the executive order “Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets.” At first glance, one seems aimed at health care modernization and the other at public safety. But beneath their branding lies a shared infrastructure (and agenda) that poses a profound threat to the civil rights, privacy and bodily autonomy of millions of Americans."
Domestic Workers Count on SNAP. Trump’s Shutdown Is Hitting Hard. by J Julia Métraux on November 6, 2025 at Mother Jones
"For low-income people and their families, it’s been a hard, complicated week. On November 1, more than 40 million users of SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, did not receive their monthly payments after the Trump administration refused to pay full benefits through emergency funding during the ongoing government shutdown. It would be better, the administration has decided, to weaponize hunger against Democrats, blaming the government shutdown, than to feed people."
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