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[Headline] Why We Need MiCASSA NOW! The Medicaid Community Attendant Services and Supports Act: First, the bill...would give individuals who are currently eligible for nursing home services or an intermediate care facility equal access to community-based attendant services and supports. Second, for a limited time, States would have the opportunity to receive additional services and supports and for certain administrative activities. Third, the bill provides States with financial assistance to support "real choice systems change initiatives" that include specific action steps to increase the provision of home and community based services. Finally, the bill establishes a demonstration project to evaluate service coordination and cost sharing. -Senator Tom Harkin May 1, 2003 Freeourpeople.org - ADAPT (1466)
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Weather Today: Heavy rain, wind High: 69 degrees 100 percent chance of rain Tomorrow: Partly cloudy High: 70 degrees 10 percent chance of rain The Pitt News www.pittnews.com Pit preapres for its first road game at Toledo...page 18 Friday, September 19, 2003 One of America's great student newspapers-since 1906 [Headline] Rally for disabilities [image] [image caption] Free our people march and rally gets a little help from Pitt students. Pitt's School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences Student Advisory Board traveled to Washington, D.C. Wednesday for what members described as "the largest gathering of disability rights activists since the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990." Image courtesy of Tamara Mills - ADAPT (1457)
[Flyer] "I call for solidarity among all those who love justice, all who love life, to create a revolution that will empower every single human being to govern his or her life, to govern the society and to be fully productive of life quality for seld and for all." -Justin Dart For more information contact ADAPT at: ADAPT 1339 Lamar Square Drive #101 Austin, Texas 78704 (512) 442-0252 Email: adapt@adapt.org www.adapt.org www.freeourpeople.org September 17, 2003 [next page begins] Free Our People March and Rally Our people have marched 144 miles from the Liberty Bell to Capital Hill. We demand the passage of MiCASSA (S.971 and HR 2032) and No More Stolen Lives! September 17, 2003 1:00 PM-3:00 PM Upper Senate Park Washington, DC - ADAPT (1473)
Chicago Sun Times Wednesday, September 17, 2003 Featured Letter [image] [image caption] Participants in the "Free Our People March" travel last week along Route 40 in Maryland, about the halfway point between the start in Philadelphia and its destination in Washington. Photo courtesy of Tom Olin [Headline] Disabled get on the move for freedom We just celebrated the 40th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech. Forty years later, people with disabilities still have a dream of escaping nursing homes institutions and going back to the community. About 150 disabled activists-- many in wheelchairs--convened at 4 to begin a 150 mile march on Philadelphia to Washington. [s] two-week "Free Our People March" will end at Washington [k] in our nation's capital today to [m] the need for more home- and community-based attendant services, and to call attention to the institutional bias that lingers in this country. More than 80 percent of Medicaid long-term care dollars are spent keeping people institutionalized, while less than 20 percent as- people who want to live in their homes and apartments, where they are much happier. [pulled quote] We have a dream to live independently [text resumes] There's federal legislation that would address this issue: the Medicaid Community Attendants Service and Supports Act. Introduced by Rep. Danny Davis (D-Ill.), H.R. 2032 would assist people with disabilities--regardless of age--in nursing homes back into the community, using the same Medicaid funding that's used to keep them institutionalized. Statistics show that people are much happier and productive living in their own homes instead of languishing in nursing homes. The major obstacles of MiCASS's passage in Congress are the nursing home lobbyists in Illinois and around the country. Profit is their bottom line, and they have deep pockets to buy off legislators. They continue to be a threat to the civil rights of people with disabilities. They disregard the quality of life for people stuck in their institutions; they see the almighty dollar sign and don't hear the cries of the people who want out. About 5,000 people with disablities will descend on Washington Park to rally for justice and the right to live in the mainstream community. We have a dream to live independently, free from segregation, as Dr. King could have related to. It's time to have our dream realized. Larry Biondi, independant living advocate, Progress Center for Independent Living, Forest Park - ADAPT (1459)
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