Her Leg Is #NotALuxury: Meet Jill Gibboney, Wife, Mom, and Badass Advocate for Amputees and the Disabled
In this
interesting and informative interview, Ms. Gibboney talks about how the
ADA hasn't magically resolved all issues for people with disabilities,
and about why Medicare's policy for amputees is so important--since
private insurers usually follow Medicare's lead, it's important to make
sure their policies are forward thinking, not backward. Proposed changes
to Medicare have the potential to drastically diminish the standards of
prosthetic care for amputees. For a summary of the proposed changes,
please visit: http://www.amputee-coalition.org/advocacy-awareness/federal-issues/medicare-issue-alert/
Jill Gibboney is a wife, mom, office manager for a small marketing firm, social media maven, and only recently, an accidental advocate for people with disabilities, even though she was born without her right femur. She started social media accounts under the name the Handi-Slap, a humorous take on the very unfunny problem of people abusing handicapped parking, after successfully winning a battle with a construction dumpster via Twitter that was placed by the city at a handicapped meter in downtown Cincinnati.
To check out the Handi-Slap:
https://twitter.com/handi_slap
https://www.facebook.com/handislap
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