Oscar-winning actress Marlee Matlin says she is “extremely concerned” about funds being cut from services for the disabled in the US.
Matlin, who was the first deaf person to receive an Academy Award, speaks Monday in Tel Aviv. Matlin is in Israel to receive the prestigious Morton E. Ruderman Award for her lifelong activism for people with disabilities.
She says it would be a “disaster” if health care is cut back in the US.
Congressional Republicans are targeting the Medicaid health program, which helps the poor and disabled, and funds nursing home care for millions of older people who could not otherwise afford it.
Matlin says “people with disabilities need to be more outspoken.”
Matlin won the Oscar for best actress for 1986’s “Children of a Lesser God.”
American Oscar-winning actress Marlee Matlin takes a selfie on the rooftop of the Tel Aviv municipality, June 19, 2017. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
— AP
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