A fact from Julie Beckett appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 23 June 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that Julie Beckett lobbied for the Katie Beckett Medicaid waiver, which enabled hundreds of thousands of disabled children to be cared for by their families at home instead of a hospital?
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... that Julie Beckett lobbied for the Katie Beckett Medicaid waiver, which enabled hundreds of thousands of disabled children to be cared for by their families at home instead of a hospital? Source: “Julie Beckett, who with her daughter, Katie, pushed for changes to Medicaid that enabled hundreds of thousands of families to raise and care for their disabled children at home”
“Reagan established a commission to work out the criteria for what came to be known as Katie Beckett waivers, and to encourage states, which administer Medicaid, to adopt them. Today every state has a Katie Beckett program.”
Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 17:40, 11 June 2022 (UTC)