Paging Dr. Cassidy: Patients hope La. senator saves their Medicaid

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Channel: WWLTV · 2017 · People & Blogs

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For all of her 33 years, Ashley Volion has refused to back down.

Spastic cerebral palsy took away her ability to walk, clipped her speech and withered her hands. But, somehow, Volion controlled the spasms and refined her speech patterns, got a master’s degree in sociology, moved into her own apartment, got a job as a nonprofit policy analyst and even got the University of Illinois-Chicago to let her pursue a PhD in Disability Studies online, from New Orleans.

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