{"id":473467,"date":"2021-01-10T02:32:42","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T10:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/?p=473467"},"modified":"2026-02-12T17:19:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T01:19:20","slug":"ep-94-healthcare-rationing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/2021\/01\/10\/ep-94-healthcare-rationing\/","title":{"rendered":"Ep 94: Healthcare Rationing"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2887\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-473467-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/disability_visibility\/content.blubrry.com\/disability_visibility\/Ep_94_Final.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/disability_visibility\/content.blubrry.com\/disability_visibility\/Ep_94_Final.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/disability_visibility\/content.blubrry.com\/disability_visibility\/Ep_94_Final.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/disability_visibility\/content.blubrry.com\/disability_visibility\/Ep_94_Final.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/?powerpress_pinw=473467-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/disability_visibility\/content.blubrry.com\/disability_visibility\/Ep_94_Final.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Ep_94_Final.mp3\">Download<\/a> | <a href=\"#\" class=\"powerpress_link_e\" title=\"Embed\" onclick=\"return powerpress_show_embed('473467-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_embed_box\" id=\"powerpress_embed_473467-podcast\" style=\"display: none;\"><input id=\"powerpress_embed_473467-podcast_t\" type=\"text\" value=\"&lt;iframe width=&quot;320&quot; height=&quot;30&quot; src=&quot;https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/?powerpress_embed=473467-podcast&amp;amp;powerpress_player=mediaelement-audio&quot; title=&quot;Blubrry Podcast Player&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; scrolling=&quot;no&quot;&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\" onclick=\"javascript: this.select();\" onfocus=\"javascript: this.select();\" style=\"width: 70%;\" readOnly><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/disability-visibility\/id1282878324\u00a0?mt=2&amp;ls=1#episodeGuid=https%3A%2F%2Fdisabilityvisibilityproject.com%2F%3Fp%3D473467\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/subscribebyemail.com\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe by Email\" rel=\"nofollow\">Email<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s been over eleven months since the pandemic emerged in the United States and things are worse than ever. Hospitals across the country have reached full capacity and utilizing crisis standards of care, guidelines used when there is a shortage of resources and care. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today\u2019s episode is about healthcare allocation in the time of COVID with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/labelleverite\">Britney Wilson<\/a>, a civil rights attorney with the <a href=\"https:\/\/nclej.org\/\">National Center for Law and Economic Justice<\/a>. This center, along with three other disability rights organizations, filed a class action complaint in October 2020 against the State of New York.\u00a0 The lawsuit challenges the New York State Ventilator Allocation Guidelines as discriminatory. The Guidelines allow hospitals to reallocate ventilators from people who use them in the community. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Britney will talk about her role in the case and how the case came about, how these existing guidelines are ableist and harm disabled people, and the goals are from the lawsuit. Please note we talked in November 2020 and I included a short update at the end of the episode.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Transcript<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1CWx95cAOpX5Q_cxwtlERYWJqNN1HK8bc5ELeBGvaJXQ\/edit?usp=sharing\"><strong>[Google doc]<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Healthcare-Rationing_updated.pdf\"><strong>[PDF]<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Related Links<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nclej.org\/news\/protect-personal-ventilator-users\">&#8220;NCLEJ Files Lawsuit to Protect Personal Ventilator Users,&#8221;<\/a> October 8, 2020.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nclej.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/nys-ventilator-complaint.pdf\">Class action complaint, Civil Case No: 1:20-cv-4819<\/a>, October 7, 2020.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nclej.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/drny-nclej-press-release-10-9-20.pdf\">&#8220;Lawsuit Filed Challenges New York State Department of Health Guidelines Allowing the Reallocation of Personal Ventilators,&#8221;<\/a> October 9, 2020, <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">National Center for Law and Economic Justice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/disability-rights-activists-sue-cuomo-over-ventilator-discrimination\/\">&#8220;Disability Rights Activists Sue Cuomo over Ventilator Discrimination,&#8221;<\/a> October 9, 2020, Wesley J. Smith, National Review.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2021\/01\/covid-ethics-committee\/617261\/\">&#8220;What the Chaos in Hospitals Is Doing to Doctors,&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0 January\/February 2021, Jordan Kisner.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/07\/31\/896882268\/one-mans-covid-19-death-raises-the-worst-fears-of-many-people-with-disabilities\">&#8220;One Man&#8217;s COVID-19 Death Raises The Worst Fears Of Many People With Disabilities,&#8221;<\/a> July 31, 2020, Joseph Shapiro, NPR.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/12\/14\/945056176\/as-hospitals-fear-being-overwhelmed-by-covid-19-do-the-disabled-get-the-same-acc\">&#8220;As Hospitals Fear Being Overwhelmed By COVID-19, Do The Disabled Get The Same Access?&#8221;<\/a> December 14, 2020, Joseph Shapiro, NPR.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4H7t1-1YUz\">Ep 81: Bioethics with Joe Stramondo<\/a>, July 20, 2020, Disability Visibility podcast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4H7t1-1USz\">Ep 50: Disabled Lawyers with Hamza Jaka and Britney Wilson<\/a>, May 6, 2019, Disability Visibility podcast.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/first-person\/2020\/4\/4\/21204261\/coronavirus-covid-19-disabled-people-disabilities-triage\">&#8220;I\u2019m disabled and need a ventilator to live. Am I expendable during this pandemic?&#8221;<\/a> April 4, 2020, Alice Wong, Vox.<\/p>\n<p id=\"5518\" class=\"fq dg fr av cv fs ft fu fv fw fx fy fz ga gb gc gd ge gf gg gh gi gj gk gl gm gn\"><a href=\"https:\/\/offkiltershow.medium.com\/i-will-not-apologize-for-my-needs-4a2e8c71ce60\">\u201cI will not apologize for my needs,\u201d<\/a> March 27, 2020, Off-Kilter podcast.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/nclej.org\/\">National Center for Law and Economic Justice<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.drny.org\/\">Disability Rights New York\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nmdunited.org\/\">NMD United<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/notdeadyet.org\/\">Not Dead Yet<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>About<\/strong><\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_473472\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-473472\" style=\"width: 576px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"473472\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/2021\/01\/10\/ep-94-healthcare-rationing\/image0-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/image0.jpeg?fit=576%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"576,1024\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image0\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Britney Wilson, Black woman with curly natural, black hair and glasses in a blue chambray suit and white and blue polka dot top standing on crutches in an office.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/image0.jpeg?fit=169%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/image0.jpeg?fit=576%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-473472 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/image0.jpeg?resize=576%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Britney Wilson, Black woman with curly natural, black hair and glasses in a blue chambray suit and white and blue polka dot top standing on crutches in an office.\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/image0.jpeg?w=576&amp;ssl=1 576w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/image0.jpeg?resize=169%2C300&amp;ssl=1 169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-473472\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Britney Wilson, Black woman with curly natural, black hair and glasses in a blue chambray suit and white and blue polka dot top standing on crutches in an office.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Civil rights attorney Britney Wilson is a staff attorney at the National Center for Law and Economic Justice in New York.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/labelleverite\">@labelleverite<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Support Disability Media and Culture<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/donate\/\"><b>DONATE<\/b><\/a><b>\u00a0to the Disability Visibility Project\u00ae<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Credits<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whoamitostopit.com\/\">Cheryl Green<\/a>, Audio Producer and Text Transcript<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SFdirewolf\">Alice Wong<\/a>, Writer, Audio Producer, Host<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kut2smooth\">Lateef McLeod<\/a>, Introduction<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeeMort\">Mike Mort<\/a>, Artwork<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Theme Music (used with permission of artist)<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Song:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=N02wZiX7jso\">\u201cDance Off\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Artist:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wheelchairsportscamp.bandcamp.com\/\">Wheelchair Sports Camp<\/a><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Music<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/freemusicarchive.org\/music\/Ketsa\/The_Double_Slit_Test\/Retro_Metro\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Retro Metro<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d by Ketsa. (Source: FreeMusicArchive.org. licensed under a <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/4.0\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSmooth Lovin\u201d by Kevin MacLeod. Link: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/incompetech.filmmusic.io\/song\/4379-smooth-lovin\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/incompetech.filmmusic.io\/song\/4379-smooth-lovin<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">License: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h4><b>Sounds<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/freesound.org\/people\/Jack_Master\/sounds\/248096\/\">\u201cVOCODER countdown\u201d<\/a>\u00a0by Jack_Master.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/publicdomain\/zero\/1.0\/\">This work is licensed under the Creative Commons 0 License.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/freesound.org\/people\/sheepfilms\/sounds\/153583\/#\">8 Bit Beeping Computer Sounds<\/a>\u201d by sheepfilms.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/publicdomain\/zero\/1.0\/\">This work is licensed under the Creative Commons 0 License.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/disability_visibility\/content.blubrry.com\/disability_visibility\/Ep_94_Final.mp3Podcast\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/disability_visibility\/content.blubrry.com\/disability_visibility\/Ep_94_Final.mp3Podcast<\/a>: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | RSS&nbsp; It\u2019s been over eleven months since the pandemic emerged in the United States and things &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/2021\/01\/10\/ep-94-healthcare-rationing\/\" class=\"read-more\">Continue Reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ep 94: Healthcare Rationing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":473471,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[587152318],"tags":[159346,587152999,587152443,587152846,10372239,168607,587152695,1460,374471960,587152880,38746,4614,587152358,587152847,13217,587152623,587152750,102628],"class_list":["post-473467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","tag-ableism","tag-black-disabled-lawyers","tag-black-disabled-women","tag-coronavirus","tag-disability-community","tag-disability-rights","tag-disabled-lawyers","tag-healthcare","tag-healthcare-barriers","tag-healthcare-rationing","tag-hospitals","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-pandemic","tag-policy","tag-systemic-ableism","tag-systemic-racism","tag-ventilators","post-has-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/brittany-twitter.png?fit=1600%2C900&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4H7t1-1Zaz","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}