A mother's hardest decision

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Amy Whipple has always relied on Medicaid to care for her son, WD, who was born with cerebral palsy and epilepsy. In a first-person essay, she details the wrenching decision to move WD out of their home and into residential care and her worries that looming federal budget cuts could upend everything for her family and millions of others.

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