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"People with disabilities, together with their families, gathered in Buenos Aires on Wednesday to reject a bill promoted by the government of President Javier Milei and to denounce a deterioration in care conditions and coverage. "It is the first time in so many years of disability, which will be 30, that I feel a president wants me to die (...) It is the first time I have had that feeling, that the guy [Javier Milei] wants me to die because I am an expense, I do not produce. It is all like that. There is nothing for me," alleged protester Nazarena. Footage shows the protest taking place outside the Ministry of Health, holding signs and chanting slogans against amendments to the Disability Law. "The government has to understand that what we are demanding is that the disability law be respected and that we need our children’s services to be covered because we cannot afford it," said protester Silvia. She added that families cannot afford all the therapies, treatments, medication and transport required to care for a person with a disability. "So they need their rights to be respected," she said. The proposed amendments, which the government has framed as ‘modernisation’, include a mandatory re-registration process for disability certificates, stricter eligibility criteria for pensions, and reduced compatibility with formal employment, sparking fears that the most vulnerable will be stripped of their only source of income. Another protester, Roxana, criticised the reduction or removal of pensions for beneficiaries. "There are many families who are having a very bad time, very bad, because the pension is the only income some of them have (...) So when all coverage disappears, they are left with nothing," she explained. Following its formal filing in Congress on Wednesday, the bill will now undergo review by the Health and Budget committees before moving to the Chamber of Deputies for a floor debate and vote expected by mid-May."
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