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Along the side of a wet street in front of a hedge and at least 20 foot tall stone wall is a line of ADAPT protesters most in rain ponchos. At the top of the wall is a row of cars parked nose in to a fence at the top of the wall. Behind them is a large government type building. A few people are on the upper level looking down at the ADAPT crowd below. - ADAPT (917)
American Hospital Association Vol. 31 No. 21 May 22, 1995 [Heading] AHA blasts proposed federal budget cuts [Subheading] Association leaders favor less drastic measure by Farah Kostreski The GOP-controlled House last week passed a budget resolution that health care groups and many seniors believe moves too far too fast to curb Medicare and Medicaid spending. The Senate this week continues debating a similar plan, which if passed, will set Congress on a course tar making the largest reductions in the federal health pro-grams' history. After spurning alternatives offered by the Congressional Black Caucus. and conservative Democrats and Republicans who wanted deeper spending cuts. the House voted. 238-193. to approve a plan by House Budget Committee Chairman John R. Kasich (R-OH). Kasich's S1.4 trillion deficit-reduction proposal would slow Medicare spending by 5283 billion. and Medicaid spending by S184 billion. over the next seven years. House Speaker Newt Gingrich ( R-GA ) called Republican unity behind the plan "pretty amazing." But House Minority Leader Richard A. Gephardt ( D-M0) maintained that Americans "are not balancing [the budget] on the backs of senior citizens and middle-income people." President Clinton issued a May 18 statement noting that the House budget "fail to meet the test" of reducing the deficit and reflecting Americans' values. Earlier in the week, the president buoyed by a May 16 Washington Post/ABC News poll that found that most Americans oppose the GOP budget plans. urged congressional Democrats to reject Republican plans to reduce Medicare and Medicaid spending absent comprehensive health-system reform. "We're extremely disappointed in what the House did."' said Tom Nickels. AHA vice president and deputy director of federal relations. The numbers are clearly too high to sustain." In a May 17 letter. officials from the AHA and the Federation of American Health Systems offered support for the alternative crafted by Rep. Charles W. Stenholm ( D-TX ) and two dozen conservative Democrats. That plan would have trimmed Medicare spending by S174 billion by 2002—S109 billion less than Kasich's Medicare proposed cuts. The same day, the AHA and the federation joined a coalition of 20 other hospital and health care provider groups in a letter to House members. "We know that savings in the system can be achieved, and we are willing to accept sonic: reductions through restructuring," the groups stated. "The proposals put forward by the House Budget Committee, however, go too far, too fast." The AHA and the federation ran a series of newspaper ads asking lawmakers to work with them to "reform, restructure and save money in Medicare—not gut it." Six teaching-hospital officials converged on Capitol Hill May 16 to plead for parity. The group, convened by the Washington-based Association of American Medical Colleges, said GOP plans to cut Medicare's hospital payment updates and graduate medical education add-ons amount to a double-whammy for them. "We're willing to take our fair share, but not some sort of a KO punch." William Rice, chancellor and vice president for health affairs at the University of Tennessee in Memphis, told reporters. Teaching hospitals may have allies in Senate Finance Committee members Alf once M. D'Amato R-NY) and Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY ). who represent the state with nearly 15 percent of the nation's teaching institutions. The Senate debate continues this week, with members expected to cast final votes on May 25. The Senate Budget Committee's plan would curb Medicare spending by $256 billion and Medicaid spending by $175 billion by 2002. [Image] A dozen or more ADAPT people in wheelchairs sit in front of a door. There is a railing in the middle of the group and up against the door are two police officers. Kevin Ervin of West Virginia ADAPT is sitting on the left side of the photo behind the railing wearing dark sunglasses next to the standing person with the wild hair. Someone [maybe Mary Johnson of the Disability Rag] is on a phone next to the door. Above that persons's head is a poster taped to the wall that reads "Shame on Newt." [Image caption] On Newt's doorstep. Capitol police guard the front door as disabled activists and other demonstrators portest proposed Medicare and Medicaid budget cuts outside House Speaker Newt Gingrich's (R-GA) apartment building. - ADAPT (759)
Page 10/Handicapped Coloradan two major presidential campaigns. The following is one participant‘s day-by-day report of the week’s events. Saturday: Day One Activists from the Bay Area hold a rally in Pioneer Square. Four of us, having arrived early with ADAPT’s advance team, decide to go check out the rally. We get there right at 2 p.m. when the gathering is supposed to begin; we are the first ones there, except for a dozen or so cops. Soon, however, Connie Arnold, Peter Mendoza, and a few other folks from the disability community show up, with arm bands, flyers, and a megaphone. Gradually a crowd of 40 or 50 gathers. As a gesture of support for ADAPT, the rally’s timing seems a little off, since most ADAPTers won’t arrive until later today. But at least it’s one way to encourage the involvement of some local people who, for one reason or another, won’t be joining the ADAPT protests. And locals do have a compelling interest here: California, once regarded almost as a disability utopia because of is generous and consumer-controlled services, is now experiencing harsh cutbacks due to a state budget crunch. Some in the community are beginning to realize that a nationwide system is needed. A few speakers introduce the issues: the cuts in personal assistance services, and the monopoly exercised by the nursing home industry. Then individuals are invited to come before the crowd and describe their own experiences with personal assistance services, independent living, and/or institutionalization. Sunday: Day Two Members of ADAPT from throughout the country, having rested a bit from the previous day’s traveling, gather in the hotel’s huge meeting room. The four-hour training covers ADAPT’s history and purposes, the basics of civil disobedience, and a tentative outline of the week’s activities, including the convention of the American Health Care Association (AHCA), which represents the nursing home industry. (The convention is the main reason ADAPT chose San Francisco this time around). Like most ADAPT meetings, this one is part strategy session, part pep rally. Mike Auberger, Stephanie Thomas, Shel Trapp, and others remind the group of our previous successes and our proven collective power. Meanwhile, the back of the room bustles with the buying and selling ofT-shirts, jewelry, luggage tags, books, bandanas, and other ADAPT-logoed paraphernalia. These entrepreneurial activities are an important fundraising strategy; local chapters use the proceeds from these sales to help pay members’ travel expenses to ADAPT actions. With the introductory business taken care of, the group discussion tums to immediate plans. AHCA delegates are arriving today and will attend a cocktail party this evening. Since our arrival, the word has been passed that we would hit the Marriott Hotel, where the AHCA delegates are staying. But we don’t want the police to know that until we get here. So at the meeting, Auberger announces that our target is a cocktail party at the Moscone Convention Center. The meeting ends. People disperse to grab late lunches and/ or bathroom breaks. Then we reassemble in the lobby at 4 p.m., lining up and dividing into color-coded teams. This preparation period is always busy but fun: hand-printed placards and duct tape are passed up and down the line, turning wheelchairs and bodies into mobile signboards with slogans like “NURSING HOMES = DEATH" and “MY HOME, NOT A NURSING. ” This is also a time of socializing and reunion, punctuated by shrieks of recognition, hugs, sharing of news. As we await our marching orders, we meet new people and greet friends we haven’t seen since the Chicago actions back in May or the Orlando actions a year ago. Finally we head out, marching single file down the middle of the street. We chant along the way: “FREE OUR BROTHERS, FREE OUR SISTERS, FREE OUR PEOPLE NOW!” and "UP WITH ATTENDANTCARE, DOWN WITH NURSING HOMES!” The police dutifully block the traffic, providing a safe and visible route through city streets to our destination. Our relationship with the police is a strange and sometimes contradictory one: they play a dual role, both adversary and escort. Along our route some are courteous, some indifferent. Here we don’t engage with them on the same intense level we will later on. When we get to Fourth Street, we stop at the Marriott instead of continuing on to the Moscone Center. We quickly separate into our teams. Despite our efforts to deceive them, the police are ready for us. They have fenced off every entrance with their steel barricades, yellow tape, and armed, heavy-booted officers. But this works fine for us—if they can keep us out, then we can keep everybody else out. Each team takes a different door. I end up posted at the main entrance, in line with a dozen other protestors. A barricade separates us from the door, but we are effectively blocking access for the AHCA delegates, many of whom are trying to return to the hotel - ADAPT (1146)
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ADAPT organizers aimed this week's protests not a the Opryland Hotel, but at the hotel's guests--the American Health Care Association, which was holding its annual convention here. As the nation's nursing home industry lobby, the association is ADAPT's archenemy. ADAPT is demanding that the United States provide more health care for disabled people in their own homes by redirecting more than $5 billion in Medicaid funds from nursing homes. The activist group says 1.7 million institutionalized citizens could live independently at home if these services were offered. What's more, the group says it would cost less-- $8000 a year for each patient receiving in-home care compared to $30,000 for nursing-home care. The nursing home industry opposes ADAPT and makes millions of dollars in political contributions to ensure its voice is heard in Washington. ADAPT claims profit is the motive for the industry's opposition. ADAPT demonstrators have laid siege to the previous two association conventions. In 1992 at San Francisco, more than 100 ADAPT members were arrested, and 75 went to jail in 1991 at the convention at Orlando, Fla. ADAPT members have been in Nashville since Sunday to protest and try to meet with the American Health Care Association, which is having its annual convention at the Opryland Hotel. The group is demanding that 25 percent of all Medicaid dollars be diverted from nursing homes to home health care. ADAPT protesters demonstrated Sunday at the entrance to the Opryland Hotel before being told they'd be able to meet with AHCA officials Tuesday. - ADAPT (1225)
The Columbus Dispatch Wednesday ■ OCTOBER 27, 1999 [Headline] Disability-rights group meeting here [Subheading] The organization has staged numerous demonstrations and acts of civil disobedience in recent years. By Steve Stephens Dispatch Staff Reporter A group of disability-rights activists, known for blocking buses and political offices across the country, will be in Columbus beginning this weekend for an event billed as the organization's "last national action of the millennium." American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today will host about 500 activists for a six-day program beginning Saturday at the Hyatt on Capitol Square, said Mike Auberger, the group's organizer. Auberger said it's likely that the group will stage acts of civil disobedience in Columbus. "How far that goes depends on the response we get" from state and local officials, he said. "One of the things that you'll find with ADAPT is that we try to hammer our point home with the folks who want to keep the status quo," Auberger said. "Sometimes that includes demonstrations, sometimes meetings. There have been arrests in the past. No one comes with the goal of being arrested, but the issue is important enough that people feel their personal freedom is secondary to getting the message out." Some of the issues that group members are fighting for include more Medicaid money for in-home health care and less for nursing homes. The organization also has protested problems with accessibility on commercial buses. "We're in Columbus because Ohio is one of the 10 worst, states when it comes to providing community-based services — services that allow people with disabilities to continue living in their own homes," Auberger said. The state "spends significantly more money to institutionalize people" than for home-based care, he said. "Somebody with a disability, young or old, should have the option to choose" between institutional and in-home care, he said. Group members have staged, numerous acts of civil disobedience to Make their point, Auberger said. In August, 33 protesters were arrested in St. Louis, during a meeting of the National Governors' Association after they handcuffed. them-selves to buses at the meeting site. Protesters in the past year also have been arrested. in Memphis, Tenn., and Austin, Texas,. and have blocked the entrances to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services building and Democratic and Republican headquarters in Washington, D.C. Sgt. Earl Smith, Columbus Police spokes-man, said officers will assume that the activists will abide by the law, though police will be ready. "The fact that someone is handicapped or disabled doesn't preclude them from going to jail," Smith said. He said that those who break the law to make a point "do a gross disservice to people who are trying to change things legitimately." "But it's not unrealistic to expect a fringe element in any group," Smith said. - ADAPT (1197)
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[Headline] Group Protests Over Housing [image] [image caption] Nearly 250 disabled protesters, including Barbara Moore of Baltimore, center in red, travel to the Federal Building on First Avenue from the Westin Hotel, where the annual National Governors' Association conference was being held. The group went to the Federal Building yesterday to ask regional HUD Director John Meyers to send their complaints about the current housing voucher system to Washington, D.C. Disability rights organization ADAPT, which sponsored the protest, was trying to reach governors of states that ranked poorly on providing options to the disabled to live and receive support services from the community. Washington was not listed among the 20 worst states, and many of the protesters were from elsewhere. - ADAPT (1559)
The Seattle Times THURSDAY, JULY 15, 2004 [Headline] As governors meet, groups plan to voice concerns BY BETH KAIMAN Seattle Times staff reporter Seattle police are preparing for downtown protests this weekend from groups representing labor, students and people with disabilities — each determined to make its case to the National Governors Association conference. Assistant Police Chief Nick Metz said three groups have permits to march with the labor group Put People First estimating at least 1,000 participants; the student group Building Revolution by Increasing Community Knowledge (BRICK) hoping for as a many as 1,000 people; and the disabled-rights organization ADAPT bringing in about 400 people from across the county, many of them in wheelchairs. Representatives of the groups said they intend to take part in orderly demonstrations, but the disabled-right organization, in particular, has been known to try to disrupt governors association meetings in other cities. Bob Kafka, national organizer with ADAPT, said the protest is meant to appeal to the states to support a bill in Congress to bolster Medicaid spending for community- and home-based care for people with disabilities. "People young and old don't want to be housed in institutions," Kafka said. The group will make its way about 3:30 p.m. Saturday from the Red Lion Hotel, down Union Street toward Pike Place Market and a 4 p.m. rally at Victor Steinbrueck Park. Kafka declined to detail plans for Sunday, when the governors are scheduled to discuss long-term health-care issues. - ADAPT (1354)
PHOTO: Two SFPD police officers, in a crowd of almost a dozen blue uniforms, have a man [Jeff Fox] sitting on the ground by his arms to lift him into his manual wheelchair beside him. Another officer is holding the chair still. They all have big batons and other equipment hanging from their belts. Jeff, with his long hair and beard, windbreaker, jeans and hightop sneakers, is sitting on some kind of yellow banner on what seems to be the street with a woman with blonde hair, glasses a jacket and jeans, and you can see the foot of a third person. - ADAPT (1196)
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT THE DEPUTY SECRETARY WASHINGTON, D.C. 20410-0050 May 11, 1999 A D.A.P.T. 201 South Cherokee Street Denver, CO 80223 Dear A.D.A.P.T Members: As per our discussion this afternoon (May 11, 1999), I will arrange a meeting with the Secretary sometime during the week of June 6, 1999, to address your concerns. These concerns include the five items you handed out today (see attached). In that meeting, we will provide you with a timeline on implementation of the items labeled three and four on your list. Regarding the 232 program we will provide you with the information you requested as to what regulatory discretion HUD may have in its implementation of that program, as well as a deeper discussion on how we can work together to address the concerns you have shared with me. I will ask that representatives of all the program areas attend this meeting so that your other issues may also be addressed, including those regarding fair housing enforcement and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. Today, Thea Spires will provide you with copies of a letter HUD has already sent out to our grantees regarding Section 504. Sincerely, [signed] Saul N. Ramirez, Jr. [typed] Saul N. Ramirez, Jr. - ADAPT (991)
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[state flag] MISSISSIPPI: Approximately 87% of long term care spending goes for nursing homes and other institutions. 51st in community fiscal effort for persons with developmental disabilities. 47th in overall spending on community services for people with disabilities. 17th in per capita spending on nursing homes. 46th in spending for Medicaid waivers. Currently has an Olmstead lawsuit filed against the State for not complying with the Supreme Ct decision. [state flag] NEVADA: Approximately 67% of long term care spending goes for nursing homes and other institutions. Lowest spending per capita on all community services. 32nd in community spending for persons with developmental disabilities. 49th in spending on Medicaid waivers. [state flag] LOUISIANA: Approximately 81% of long term care spending goes for nursing homes and other institutions. Ranked 51st in the country in Medicaid community spending. 39th in Medicaid waiver spending. 4th highest spending per capita for ICF-MR facilities for people with developmental disabilities. [state flag] TENNESSEE: Ranked 48th on Home Cave per capita spending. 39th in Medicaid community spending. 39th in spending for persons with developmental disabilities. 46th in spending for people with physical disabilities. 45th in spending on Medicaid waivers. Since Tennessee provides some long term care services under a man-aged care model it is not possible to get a true ratio of institutional versus community spending. [state flag] ILLINOIS: Approximately 80% of long term care spending goes for nursing homes and other institutions. 46th per capita spending in community spending. 46th in community spending for people with developmental disabilities. 47th in overall community spending. 41st in spending on Medicaid waivers. [state flag] GEORGIA: Approximately 79% of long term care spending goes for nursing homes and other institutions. 48th in fiscal effort for all community services. 36th in spending for people with developmental disabilities. 47th in spending on Medicaid waivers. [state flag] ALABAMA: Approximately 77% of long term care spending goes for nursing homes and other institutions. 46th in fiscal effort for all community services. 42nd in spending for people with developmental disabilities. 37th in spending for Medicaid waivers. [state flag] NEW JERSEY: Approximately 76% of long term care spending goes for nursing homes and other institutions. 7th highest spending per capita on nursing homes. 46th in spending on community services. 50th in community fiscal effort for persons with developmental disabilities. 33rd in spending on Medicaid waivers. [state flag] FLORIDA: Approximately 74% of long term care spending goes for nursing homes and other institutions. 43rd in per capita spending for community services. 31st in spending for persons with developmental dis-abilities. 40th in spending for Medicaid waivers. [state flag] WASHINGTON DC: Approximate 90% of long term care spending goes for nursing homes and other institutions. 2nd highest spending per capita on nursing homes. The highest per capita spending on ICF-MR facilities. 4th in per capita spending on Home Health. 11th in total capita spending on community services. - ADAPT (1461)
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THE BLADE: TOLEDO, OHIO TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1999 [Headline] Protesters converge on Taft's office [Subheading] Group wants more funding for home-based health care BY JAMES DREW BLADE COLUMBUS BUREAU CHIEF COLUMBUS Disability-rights activists occupied part of a state office building yesterday, demanding to meet with Governor Taft and trying to convince a legislative leader to hold hearings on a bill that would shift more government funding to home health care. Members of American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today from across the nation, meeting this week in Columbus, shut down some of the elevators in the Vern Riffe Center. They sang, "I'd rather go to jail than die in a nursing home," but there were no immediate arrests. Activists in wheelchairs jammed the top floor of the building where Mr. Taft's office is located, and the 14th floor, where House Speaker Jo Ann Davidson (R., Reynoldsburg) has her office. "All we're asking for is real choice," said Toledoan Shona Eakin, speaking by cell phone from outside the speaker's office. "Instead of Ohio spending 11 cents of every dollar on home health care, it should be more even." Mr. Taft and Ms. Davidson weren't in the building. They spent most of yesterday barnstorming the state in sup-port of Issue 1 — the constitutional amendment on today's ballot which would let the state issue general obligation bonds for school and higher education projects. The protest forced many state workers to use the stairs or the building's freight elevator. Estimates of the number of protesters ranged from 300 to 500, with about 20 from the Toledo area. In Ohio as in many other states, ADAPT members said, the majority of federal and state funds for long-term care of the disabled flows to nursing homes and other institutions. They called on Mr. Taft and legislative leaders to endorse legislation to use more Medicaid funding so disabled citizens can receive care in their homes. "Ohio spends nine times as much money on institutions and nursing homes as they do on community-based services, which is exactly the opposite of what people would prefer," said Stephanie Thomas, an ADAPT organizer from Austin, Tex. Over the past two years, Ms. Thomas said, Ohio has dropped from 17th to 35th nationwide in spending on Medicaid waiver services. Jon Allen, a spokesman for the state Department of Human Services, said he couldn't verify the group's claim. He said if the cost of home health care exceeds that of a nursing home, the state would lose federal funds and Ohio taxpayers would have to pick up the bill. Mr. Taft offered to meet with ADAPT members tomorrow night, but the group declined. Ms. Thomas said it was unclear whether Mr. Taft wanted to hold a "Hi, how are you?". meeting or a full-scale session on home health care for the disabled. [image] [image caption] A woman handcuffs herself to a door in the Vern Riffe Center during a demonstration by disability rights activist