GSST 185 Disability Discrimination future with medical providers and Project 2025 by Avanti Jimenez

Poem on disability discrimination

ajime198 — 2025-03-09 20:26:50 UTC

For my creative project I decided to do a poem that embodied the struggle of disability individuals in society through the lens of medical care and interaction of law. As a disability person myself I have struggled to be heard myself when advocating for my own rights. My rights to have my ADA 504 plan met in my k-12 education when teachers literally told me when I had a cognitive disability that I didn’t look the part. Why does having a disability automatically have to have an assumption of not being a normal human being. When I think of my poem I think of the sick woman paper by Johanna Hedva she express The Sick Woman to be, “an identity and body that can belong to anyone denied the privileged existence. “( Hedva, 10). Illustrating that the sick woman can apply to anyone outside of the white Eurocentric class who do not have to worry about issues that BIPOC deal with or disability people go through. Disability people do not have that reassurance of care and stability a white man has in America. Disability bodies are seen as invisible or as dysfunctional to the public eye when in reality we are people too. We should not be denied the privilege to be seen. As a sick woman herself Hedva has to drive out her own city to receive care due to medical insurance not allowing her to receive care for her conditions. Disability health care should not be gate kept for rich but for everyone.

Explicit and Implicit Disability Attitudes of Healthcare Providers

ajime198 — 2025-03-09 20:35:25 UTC

The Explicit and Implicit Disability Attitudes of Healthcare Providers study 2022 was run by an all female research team. Their research is found on PubMed. The researchers picked categories based on health occupation, gender, race, disability, political view, and personal connection to the disability community. The first researcher was Heather Feldner a Professor in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at UW. The second Professor was Carlie Friedman at University of Washington teaching disability studies. The last was Laura Vanpuymbrouck a Professor in occupational therapy at RUSH University. In the teams participants the disability population within health care individuals was nice to see being represented in a well known field.

Results on study

ajime198 — 2025-03-09 20:41:15 UTC

From the study the lower scores principled conservatives which is basically republican mindset and views scoring 2.4% out of all participants. From the study the researchers mentioned that the principled conservatives came from southern states which did not surprise me. This category was a mix of white and East Asian idenity. Symbolic Abelist is when the individual knows and commits to discriminating against disability patient care. These participants came from a mix of east coast states like Rhode Island and Texas. Health workers identified mostly as white women 40 years old in the findings. Portraying principle conservatives and symbolic abelist to be the Karen’s of the medical field occupations. As for truly low prejudiced most of the respondents came from West Coast side and New York hospitals. For the 27.5% was a mix of black, Hispanic, East Asians, South Asia, Indigenous, and Pacific Islander health providers. Aversive Ableist was the most highest category from participants to score high on. Out of all 938 participants 60.5% scored aversive ableist on the survey and workshops the researchers made. Aversive ableist is when an individual knowingly is progressive but still performs actions of discrimination unconsciously. Most of the participaints were from all the categories listed both gender and race. As well as from Midwest states, west coast, and East coast. Tying back in how old medical stereotyping ideologies are still present in today’s medical field. Mary I. O Conner brings up a great point on how we, “need to mitigate our unconscious biases by directly confronting them.”( O’Conner, 899). Pointing out that by confronting biases such as by holding ourselves accountable by saying it out loud. In addition, as well as having trainings that dive deeper into uncousioness stereotypes around disability patient care. As well as harmful language and body language like looking away from the patient or using terms like incapable that trigger uncomfortability for patients. What makes this study even more important is that it’s results were post covid-19 meaning there could be a lot more data that has yet to be documented on ableist views in healthcare towards disability patients.

Northwestern Similar Study to the 2022 Research 2025

ajime198 — 2025-03-09 20:47:43 UTC

This study led by Northwestern Health Services wanted to do a follow up of the 2022 study on healthcare discrimination toward disability patients. The researchers in their 2025 study found that 1 in 4 US adults have some form of a disability. In addition, that they viewed medical schools across the US even their own health care on campus and surveyed how they treat disability overall. They were sad to find that medical education falls short on framing disability as negative instead of positive as well as how much people preferred to not work with disability patients. Enforcing hegemonic and discriminatory behavior in the medical field for 2025 for disability patients. We are falling short on the 10 disability justices especially the categories of interdependence and anti capitalist politics. According to Sins Invalid team they share Anti capitalistic is when, “No oppression stands alone multiple ties to other oppressions .”( Alice Wong). Going into depth disability discrimination in the health care goes more into categories of skin color, gender, and queerness. For example Stacey Milburn was a Korean American Female who faced discrimination for being her idenity and speaking against white supremacy. She fought for anti capitalist politics as well . Where she believed everyone deserved to have a seat at the table and receive adequate medical care. She stood for Alice Wong’s 10 Principles of Disability Justice because she brought in lgbtq+ into question for individuals who are disabled and identify other than the binary. Which is not really brought into question Milburn and Hedva were the first female disability leaders I learned about bringing lgbtq+ and gender identity into the picture of disability discrimination. These topics should be brought into question because they point out the short comings 2025. These shortcomings on medical disability care, advocacy meeting disability needs, mutual aid to fight our current presidents cut on medical spending.

2025 Medicaid spending

ajime198 — 2025-03-09 20:48:33 UTC

This chart illustrates on how Medicaid enrollment has decreased and state spending is slowly decreasing due to the presidency. The study on health care discrimination for the current 2025 correlates with Medicaid cuts because it adds more fuel and room for error. Error for patient mistreatment by having to go out of city limits to find care that they can cover. As well as Medicaid insurance having a lot of families to struggle that have disability member. Project 2025 green line is 3.82% enrollment and state spending is 14%. Stacey Milburn claims, “Ableism scarcity means we are often feeling like we’re just fighting to survive another day, not be buried under erasure or lack of insurance or both—so it is FUCKING HUGE to imagine. What ARE disability justice revolutionary futures?” ( Milburn, 6). Illustrating that the Medicaid effect decreasing and possibility is so big and problematic because Medicaid provides so much. Medicaid provides free and at low cost to patients from low income patients. Milburn even says with Medicaid or lack of insurance in this instance it’s a major disability injustice because some physical disabilities require 24 hour constant care. Her article she even mentioned feeling like a burden when receiving care and being not being treated politely at hospitals that took her Medicaid.

Work Cited

ajime198 — 2025-03-14 21:24:51 UTC

Hedva, Johanna. Sick Woman Theory , 2020. https://youtu.be/m46BAX-Nc9w
Medicaid Enrollment & Spending Growth: FY 2024 & 2025 | KFF.” KFF, 23 Oct. 2024, www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/medicaid-enrollment-spending-growth-fy-2024-2025/.
O’ Connor, Mary. Equity360: Gender, Race, and Ethnicity: Why Don’t We Believe Our Patients?. 7 April 2021.
Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi. Care Work : Dreaming Disability Justice, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2018. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/ucr/detail.action?docID=5396334. Created from ucr on 2025-01-15 02:38:02.
Samuelson, Kristin. “Disability Is Often Neglected in Medical School Curricula, New Study Finds.” Northwestern.edu, Northwestern Now, 2025, news.northwestern.edu/stories/2025/01/disability-often-neglected-in-medical-school-curricula-new-study-finds/
Sins Invalid. “10 Principles of Disability Justice | Sins Invalid.” Sinsinvalid.org, 2015, sinsinvalid.org/10-principles-of-disability-justice/.
‌VanPuymbrouck, Laura, et al. “Explicit and Implicit Disability Attitudes of Healthcare Providers.” Rehabilitation Psychology, vol. 65, no. 2, 27 Feb. 2020, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9534792/, https://doi.org/10.1037/rep0000317.
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