Laura Mauldin
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 21 Feb
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And many, many years later, decades later, he says to me, I now realize I'm going to be doing this into my 90s and it's never going to stop.
And there will never be infrastructure to do all that needs to be done.
So if you don't qualify for Medicaid, then your day-to-day life is totally dependent upon the other person, in particular here, the spouse.
And so Ben was really struggling to, well, how do I go to work if Tina needs help 24 hours a day?
So how do you go to work...
When if you leave that person, they can't move.
Right.
But you can't not go to work because if you don't go to work, you don't have health insurance.
Health insurance.
Yeah, exactly.
Right.
Which is another, you know, sort of piece to this.
And I think what one of the things I tried to do in this book was show how ableism shapes every single decision we have made around care policy in this country.
And that includes health.
health insurance, because we've determined that only bodies that work, that are productive for the economy, should have access to health care.
It was a winter day and Ben had gone to work and at this time they were very practiced.
This was their routine that they set her up on the couch, put a blanket on her, had a big jug of water on.
the telephone and food, you know, right next to her.
And at this time, she was still transferring herself from the couch to her wheelchair and going to the bathroom and then coming back.
What happened this one day was she needed to go to the bathroom.
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