Judith Heumann

Disability is a natural aspect of the human condition. As people live longer, as we fight more wars, as medical care continues to improve—more and more people who might have died in an earlier era will live. Perhaps with a disability. We should accept it. Plan for it. Build our society around it.

But the biggest thing he did was to get the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, passed. The Affordable Care Act allowed disabled people, who were getting denied health insurance because of preexisting conditions, to get insurance; it also made health insurance more affordable; and expanded Medicaid