How much should we be freaking out about 504 and Medicaid right now?

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For many in the disability community, the earth felt like it shifted this week. Threats surfaced to Section 504 — the foundational law giving disabled people the right to live full, integrated lives in the community free from discrimination — and Medicaid — the funding mechanism for the supports to make that right poss…