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- ADAPT (879)
USA TODAY TUESDAY, MAY 3, 1994 [Headline] Clinton takes healthcare pitch to disabled By Judi Hasson and Judy Keen President Clinton discussed his campaign for health-care reform Monday with some of the people who may need it most, the disabled. Even though his plan would not immediately give the dis-abled as much long-term care as they want, the president told 125 people, many of them in wheelchairs, his proposal must be passed now. "Otherwise, the forces of disinformation organized disinformation will think that the American people actually prefer to have the most expensive, wasteful, bureaucratically cumbersome health-care financing system on the entire face of the Earth," he said. Clinton lashed out at radio and TV ads criticizing his plan. "What do our adversaries say: We're trying to have the government take over the health-care system. False." He said his plan would provide "private insurance, private providers, empowerment for this man, this woman, these children, their families and their future." Clinton's plan would phase in community-based alternatives to nursing homes and provide a tax credit for 50% of care services, up to $15,000 a year. Disabled groups want, but probably won't get, immediate coverage for care-givers who go to their homes. Disabled groups from 26 states were in Washington to protest insurers' limits on their benefits. "Free our people! Free our people!" the crowd yelled after Clinton spoke. After their stop at the White House, the disabled activists led a procession to the Lincoln Memorial for a rally. Clinton's pitch was the start of another week of campaigning for his reform bill. Also Monday, first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton visited a supermarket that provides insurance for its workers. "Other people who are competing with you have not paid for health insurance," she said. "It is time everybody paid." Today, small-business owners will be at the White House supporting Clinton's controversial proposal requiring all businesses to Trey 80% of the cost of their workers insurance. Meanwhile, a coalition sup-porting a major switch to a gov-ernment-financed health-care system Monday unveiled its own version of "Harry and Louise" TV ads. The characters, a creation of the insurance industry, are be-coming two of the most imitat-ed people on the air. Advocates of a "single-pay-er" health system like Canada's — where the government collects taxes and pays negotiated fees to cover all the doctor and hospital bills — launched a campaign parodying the yup-pie couple scared about what reform will mean. The president and first lady did their own video spoof of "Harry and Louise" last month for a Washington press dinner. In the new version, comedians Jerry Stiller and Anne Mean play husband and wife as they are in real life. In one ad, Mears recalls Harry and Louise's theme— "There's got to be a better way." And Stiller answers: "There is. The single-payer sys-tern where everyone's covered, you get full benefits and you choose your doctor." [Headline] First lady picks a pepper, rice, mango and support First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton turned first grocery shopper Monday and revealed herself to be an average, if health-conscious, consumer. Defending her husband's health-team plan and its reliance on employer-paid Insurance at a Safeway supermarket in Washington, Clinton paused to pick up a few things. 'This sounds funny, but even when my husband was governor, I'd go to the store, and I felt like a normal person," she told late-morning shoppers and store worker's, "My daughter and I would go up and down the aisles, and we'd buy things, and we'd take it home and cook it... "I know this sounds funny, especially for the women in the audience, that you would ever miss going to the store, buying things, and taking them home and cooking them. But trust me, you would." [Image caption:] By J. Scott Appiesvhite, AP. In Washington, D.C.: First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton shops at a grocery store. So after remarks on the benefits of requiring employer-paid insurance, Clinton picked up a red handbasket and made like a regular shopper -- with a dozen cameras trailing. She picked out a mango, a jicama root she planned to use in a dip and a pasilla pepper. Then she grabbed a bagel, brown rice, two cans of tuna, some non-fat sour cream, two biscotti and a small container of fiesta salad. At the checkout, Clinton grabbed three magazines Woman's Day, Family Circle and Reader's Digest — and paid the $15.50 tab with a $20 bill from her pocketbook. --Richard Wolf - ADAPT (878)
Nashville Banner FROM PAGE ONE Tuesday, May 3, 1994 A-2 [Headline] Midstate woman with MD marches for health reform By Judy Holland Banner/States News Writer WASHINGTON — As she guides her electric wheelchair in the shadow of the Lincoln Memorial, it's clear Wynelle Carson is a woman set on independence. Her wish to live free of a nursing home prompted this 34-year-old Mount Pleasant woman with muscular dystrophy to join more than 2,000 people with disabilities in a march on the U.S. Capitol. Carson was part of a contingent from Middle Tennessee who joined other activists from across the country Monday in lobbying lawmakers and President Clinton for health care reform that includes payment for attendants who can help them live at home. It wasn't the first time members from ADAPT — Americans Disabled for Attendant Programs Today — picketed to draw attention to their plight. Last fall in Nashville, the group disrupted operations at the Opryland Hotel and the state Capitol while the American Health Care Association—which represents most of the nation's nursing homes — was in town for its annual convention. The protest which threatened to disrupt the Country Music Awards, erupted into a melee with overturned wheelchairs that ended in the arrests of 97 activists. Monday's rally, which included speeches and songs, was one of the mellower protests for the group, which has occupied offices, blockaded buildings and forced mass ar rests to draw the spotlight to their cause. Disabled rights activists, who want 25 percent of all Medicaid dollars diverted from nursing homes to home health care, say civil disobedience is the only way they can combat the powerful nursing home lobby. "People like me are being forced into nursing homes if we can't pay someone out of our pocket," Maury County's Carson said. "It's horrible." Carson said her father, a retired machine operator, shells out $900 a month for an attendant who helps her dress, bathe and prepare meals in her own apartment. Her mother also comes over often to lend a hand. "I feel really guilty all the time because I'm taking away from them," said Carson, who works part-time at the Technology Access Center in Nashville. "I worry if something happens to them and they've spent all their money on me, what are they going to do?" Carson joined others on scooters and in wheelchairs who waived signs such as "I don't want a handout, just a hand," or "Would you like to live in a nursing home? Not." While Canon prepared for the "Bridge to Freedom" march from Arlington Memorial Cemetery to the Lincoln Memorial, Diane Coleman of Cumberland Furnace in Dickson County joined disabled rights activists in a visit with the president. Clinton, whose health care plan would phase in $65 billion to $70 billion for community and home-based care, urged the activists to lobby for his proposal in Congress. "A lot of disabled people spend their entire lives with their parents the and then go into a nursing home when the parents die," said Coleman, Tennessee organizer for ADAPT. "In Tennessee, it's very difficult to get any in-home services if you are disabled. In that regard, it's one of the worst states in the country." - ADAPT (877)
Photo: From across a pool of water you can see a very large crowd of people is gathered in a plaza and on some steps in front of the Lincoln Memorial. - ADAPT (876)
Photo: A man [Justin Dart] in a gray cowboy hat and blue blazer sits in an old fashioned manual wheelchair in front of a cluster of microphones. He is wearing a Health Care For ALL button. Behind him are some white steps with people sitting on them. - ADAPT (875)
Heath Care Package Might Include In-Home Care By EDWIN CHEN TIMES STAFF WRITER WASHINGTON—In a major new health care initiative, President: Clinton has tentatively decided that every severely disabled American, regardless of age or financial means, should have insurance coverage for long- term care at home, sources said Tuesday. The new $15.4-billion annual benefit is to be included in the core package of medical insurance benefits being designed by the Administration as a nationwide standard for all Americans, especially the estimated 37 million without insurance, sources said. The long-term care coverage would provide all eligible Americans assistance with at-home activities of daily living, such as meal preparation, cleaning and dressing. Many details of the program remain unclear, such as how White House Task Force on National Health Care Reform, chaired by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, arrived at the cost figural and how specifically the program to be paid for. Health care analysts say that as much as 89% of long-term horn care is now provided for free by relatives and friends. "It's very easy to spend $30. to $40,000 a year on intensive home care, but the average figures are a lot lower than that—in part because people don't get enough. That's why all the numbers are so soft," said Edward F. Howard, executive vice president of the Alliance for Health Reform, a non-partisan, note-for-profit Washington organization. Please see INSURE, A19 (unavailable at this time) - ADAPT (874)
Photo: A group of protesters standing and in wheelchairs are bunched together in front of a white building (the National Republican Headquarters). Several have raised power fists held above their heads. The doors of the headquarters are blocked open and a window to the side of the door is open as well. - ADAPT (873)
Nation THE BOSTON GLOBE TUESDAY, MAY 3,1994 [Headline] Disabled people hold health rally By Bob Hohler GLOBE STAFF WASHINGTON — Chanting "Free our people now," the protesters marched with canes and crutches, followed seeing-eye dogs and rolled in wheelchairs to the capital yesterday to press for comprehensive health care for nearly 50 million Americans with disabilities. More than 1,000 of those with disabilities and their advocates joined the "Bridge to Freedom" parade from Arlington National Cemetery to the Lincoln Memorial, a route many had marched four years ago to push for the Americans with Disabilities Act. At a rally, they called on Congress to pass a health-care bill that includes a national system of personal attendant services, durable medical equipment, assistive technology, psychiatric care and prescription drugs. An estimated 1.7 million people with disabilities are in nursing homes, a number that could be cut through a comprehensive health plan, many activists said. One member of the crowd described the issues as a matter of life or death. "I spent 21 years, four months and two weeks of my life in an institution," said Sybil Feldman, 53, of Brookline, who rode her wheelchair to the rally. "It means everything to me to be on my own. If I had to go back, I'd kill myself." [Subheading] 1,000 protesters make an appeal to Congress At a White House ceremony before the march, President Clinton told 125 of the activists that he supported their goals. "The health-care system is failing Americans with disabilities, but in so doing, it is failing us all," Clinton said. "It is making us less productive and less strong. It is costing more tax dollars and robbing us of taxes that would come to America's treasury from more Americans working and paying taxes in the ordinary course of their lives." Several people with disabilities from Mass-achusetts who attended the ceremony vowed to press Congress to pass Clinton's health-care bill. "He wants to make life better not only for the disabled but for their families and society in general," said Julie Nolan of Falmouth, an advocate for the Cape Organization for the Rights of the Disabled. Nolan, Pam Burkley and Leo Lucas said they feared that lobbyists might jeopardize services for those with disabilities. "If I lost my personal-care attendant, I wouldn't be able to work or care for my daughter and I would end up on" welfare, said Burkley, who works for an independent-living center in Hyannis. "I would be back in an institution," said Lucas, who said he was able to "break out" of such care because he received aid from a personal-care attendant. Other marchers, including Michael Muehe of Boston, expressed concern over the prospect of a health bill that limited care for people with "pre-existing conditions." "That would legalize discrimination," said Muehe, executive director of Cambridge's disability commission. Muehe, who uses a wheelchair, said he hoped health-care reform also would lead to broad coverage to replace wheelchairs and other durable equipment. "As it is now," he said, "we constantly have to ask, 'What's covered this week?' Sen. Torn Harkin, Democrat of Iowa and chief sponsor of the Americans with Disabilities Act, urged the crowd to march on Congress and demand that comprehensive health care for people with disabilities not be negotiable. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy pledged his support in a statement that was read to the crowd. "Many of you have had to leave successful careers, spend your families into poverty or be told to place a loved one in an institution because that is what the insurance rules dictate," said Kennedy's statement, which described such rules as "unacceptable." - ADAPT (872)
The New York Times New York, Wednesday, May 4, 1994 [Image] A mass of people in wheelchairs and standing blocking the entrance to a building. Protesters are facing every direction. Some are yelling. One man has his arm in the air with the right on fist. [Image caption] Disabled Take Protest to Party Offices Members of a group called the American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today demonstrated yesterday to press Congressional leaders for meetings on such health-care legislation as allowances for attendants used in the home. Protesters blocked the entrance to the National Republican Center, above, and three floors of the Democratic National Committee offices. Photo by David Scrull/The New York Times - ADAPT (871)
Graphic with the words: A Bridge to Freedom [the name of this action] - ADAPT (870)
The New Yolk Times NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MAY 3, 1994 [Image] Photo by David Scull of theThe New York Times: Picture from a distance of a line of people in wheelchairs and people walking across a plaza in front of the Lincoln Memorial.The picture is from below, two steps are in the foreground and the Memorial stands in the distance against the sky. [Image caption] Disabled demonstrators marched past the Lincoln Memorial in Washington yesterday to urge a health care plan that provides universal coverage. David Scull/ The New York Times By ROBIN TONER Special to The New York Times WASHINGTON, May 2 — Supporters of a Canadian-style system of government-financed health insurance announced a new advertising campaign today, hoping to build on their success in a recent grass-roots campaign on behalf of the idea in California. The new campaign pits the comedy team of Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara against the Health Insurance Association of America's "Harry and Louise," two aging yuppies fretting about the future of health care in a series of television advertisements. Appropriating the tag line of the insurance industry's spots, Ms. Meara declares in one commercial: "Harry and Louise, there is a better way." The advertising campaign is small compared with the industry's: just $1 million, only a fourth of which has been raised, as against the more than $10 million spent by the insurance association. But the advocates of a Canadian-style system, in which the government pays nearly all medical bills, have already demonstrated substantial support at the grass roots. [Subheading] Million Sign California Petition Last week a coalition of consumer, labor and doctors' groups in California submitted more than one million signatures to put a measure on the ballot this fall that would create a government-financed health care system paid for by taxes. Officials must still verify the signatures before the measure goes on the state ballot, but organizers said the number was well above the threshold required. Around the country, advocates of a Canadian-style system hope the California experience helps them in their struggle to demonstrate the political viability of their plan. They are convinced that their principal problem is not the substantive merits of a national health insurance system, but the perception in the White House and on Capitol Hill, fed by the industry groups, that it is simply too radical for the American people. The House is considered the strong-est baSe of single-payer support, but even there the Canadian-style bill has fewer than 100 sponsors, well under the 218 necessary for passage. "The giant insurance companies have spent millions in advertising, campaign contributions and lobbying to push sii,gle payer off the table," said Sara Nichols, a staff lawyer for Public Citizen's Congress Watch. "But we're still here." [Subheading] Lobbying With the Disabled The new commercials, which will first be broadcast in Washington, are an effort to put some pressure on Congress as its committees begin moving toward a vote. The campaign's organizers included Public Citizen, Neighbor to Neighbor and Single Payer Across the Nation, or SPAN. In other developments on health care, President Clinton met today with advocates for people with disabilities, arguing that his health care plan would "empower" the disabled by providing an array of new assistance to help them work and live at home. "Does it cost more in the short run?" he asked. "Yes, it costs some extra money. But if you look at the population trends in this country, if you look at the people with disabilities who are surviving and having lives that are meaningful, if you look at the fastest-growing group of Americans being people over 65, and within that group, the fastest-growing being people over 80, this is something we have to face as a people." [Subheading] A grass-roots campaign that says, 'Yes, there is a better way.' "We will either do it now in a rational way, or we will be dragged kicking and screaming into it piece-meal, Band-Aid like, over the next 10 years," the President said. "But make no mistake about it: we cannot run away from this because we can-not afford either to have everybody in the world forced into a nursing home or living in abject neglect." Meanwhile, Hillary Rodham Clinton took her health care pitch to a local Safeway supermarket, which is putting a new message on its grocery bags: "Safeway Supports Affordable Health Care for All Americans." - ADAPT (869)
LOS ANGELES TIMES Title: INSURE: Home Care May Be in Package Continued from A1 (unavailable at this time) The emerging basic benefits package, which is also expected to cover mental health services and electlve abortions. is at the core of the overall health care reform agenda that the President is expected to unveil in mid-June. That the President has tentatively decided to include long-term care in the basic benefits package ls not a surprise. although it marks a dramatic new turn in federal health policy. Administration officials. most notably Mrs. Clinton, have strongly argued that long-term custodial care at home is much cheaper than that provided in a health care institution or a nursing home. The long-term care program is expected to be vigorously supported by such powerful groups as the American Assn. of Retired Persons—but just as strongly opposed by the insurance industry. which would like to see private insurers continue selling such policies. Whether the long-term care program will gain widespread middle-class support remains to be seen. On the one hand. the cost of the President's health care reform could roach $90 billion or more a year. and that could sap popular support for his agenda, including the long-term care coverage. Yet key Administration officials view long-term care as a family issue that cuts across generations and they are known to believe that such coverage would gain the support of members of the middle class because it affords them a new measure of peace of mind. "Protection from the high cost of long-term care increases the public's willingness to support and pay for health care reform," said Judith N. Brown, who chairs AARP's board of directors. An estimated 7 million disabled Americans need help annually with basic daily tasks, and that number may double by the year 2030, according to Sen. William S. Cohen of Maine. the ranking Republican member on the Senate Special Committee on Aging. Today, nearly half of all long-term care costs are paid for out-of- pocket by those in need or their families. The high costs of such labor-intensive care often wipes out the life savings of those without long-term care coverage, forcing them into Medicaid programs to make them eligible for government-subsidized nursing home care. The Administration's long-term goal is to provide coverage for institutional care as well. One top insurance industry official called It "a fundamental mistake" to include long-term care for all disabled Americans regardless of age or wealth. "Those who can afford to cure for themselves should attempt to take care of themselves." he said, asking to rennin anonymous. According lo one set of options prepared for the President by his task force working group on long-term care, purchase of such coverage could be voluntary. During a recent closed meeting with members of Congress. Mrs. Clinton cited as one model for the White House a program in Wisconsin that began in the mid-1980s called Community Options Program. It now serves 11,300 disabled persons. And by keeping them out of more expensive nursing homes or other institutions, the $71.6-million program is saving an average of more than $100 million annually, officials said. COI has a two-year waiting list of 3,700 persons. The program uses personal case-managers in each county and is often tailored to each individual. A similar program in Arkansas, which also has served as a paradigm for the Administration, has 10,000 beneficiaries, many of whom are costing the state $300 a month instead of $1,200 a month for intermediate care in a nursing home, officials said. - ADAPT (868)
Photo by Tom Olin: In an office a large group of ADAPT protesters meet with Newt Gingrich. Gingrich is the only person from his office visible. On the back wall over a couch a mirror hangs and you can see there are more ADAPTers than are visible in the room. To Gingrich's left is Mike Ervin, to his left is Eleanor Smith, someone wearing a poncho is in front of her and beside that person , facing Gingrich is Bob Kafka in a fishing hat. To his right is a woman from Georgia. To her right, at the far end of the group are Mark Johnson in his white jacket, and Diane Coleman in front of a doorway. - ADAPT (867)
Nation The Boston Globe Tuesday, May 3, 1994 Photo by AP: A line of people in wheelchairs and some walking people, some holding signs some not, snakes in front of a white monument with pillars and many steps. Tourists are milling in the background. Caption reads: Advocates for disabled people, in Washington to demonstrate and lobby on health reform, gather at the Washington Memorial yesterday. President Clinton told activists, “The health care system is failing Americans with disabilities, but in so doing, it is failing us all.” [Image caption] Advocates for disabled people, in Washington to demonstrate and lobby on health reform, gather at the Washington Memorial yesterday. President Clinton told activists, "The health care system us failing Americans with disabilities, but in so doing, it is failing us all." AP PHOTO - ADAPT (866)
Incitement p.3 "ADAPT To Congress: Free Our People! A good portion of the credit for keeping long term care on the health reform agenda goes to ADAPT, a grassroots group of activists with disabilities that since 1990 has sought to redirect 25% of Medicaid dollars toward the creation of a national attendant services policy. " [quote] from the National Coalition of Citizens for Nursing Home Reform newsletter, July\August 1994 issue. Photo by Tom Olin: A huge crowd, led by people in wheelchairs with posters across their legs, crosses a bridge. With shorter people in the front and taller walking people behind it looks almost like a giant wave crashing toward you, [Headline] ADAPT’S CAPITOL ACTION by Jim Parker "Be an agent of change. an agent of empowerment, never forget that you are carrying on your shoulders now not only your cause, but ours as well" President Clinton told ADAPT and other disability activists invited to the White House. Fifty members of ADAPT were joined by representatives from the National Council of Independent Living, NCIL, the Consortium on Citizens with Disabilities, CCD, and other Beltway disability establishment groups to meet with the President and press for inclusion of long term care in the Health Security Act. In his address to the group Clinton added "we cannot run away from this, because we cannot afford to either have everybody forced into a nursing home or living in abject neglect... And we need to provide the opportunity for every American to live up to his or her capacity in the least restrictive environment that person might choose" [subheading] A BRIDGE TO FREEDOM ADAPT, along with NCIL, CCD, and many other groups joined in a call-to-action that mobilized over 2,500 disability right supporters from 35 states and two nations on the "Bridge to Freedom" march across Memorial Bridge to the Lincoln Memorial. ADAPT led the historic march to rally for community-based attendant services; a real change from the nursing horne\institution based services currently available. ADAPT national organizers Mike Auberger and Stephanie Thomas along with Senator Tom Harkin, President’s Committee Chair Tony Coelho, Justin Dart, and many other disability rights leaders all strongly voiced the need for a community-based national attendant services program in Health Care Reform. Auberger said "as we were gathered here, Congress, lobbyists for the insurance, nursing home and medical industries are deciding our futures and counting their profits If we passively hand over that future to the same industries, which have controlled and profited from our lives, - until today — I can guarantee that the only future we will have is one that will sentence our brothers, our sisters and ourselves to nursing homes and institutions for generations to come." Photo by Tom Olin: A man (Charles Johnson) in a manual wheelchair and a Piss on Pity t-shirt raises his right arm with the power fist as he leads a chant. In front of him and below you can see a crowd riled up. Behind him is a darkened doorway and a man (Frank Krall) stands and chants, as another man (Erik von Schmetterling) in a wheelchair chants and signs. Caption reads: Charles Johnson of Michigan ADAPT leads a chant to FREE OUR PEOPLE. The March to Freedom also called for universal coverage; affordable. comprehensive benefits; consumer driven psychiatric services; durable medical equipment; as well as prescription drugs. subheading: NO MORE BAND-AIDS! REAL HEALTH CARE FOR ALL [Subheading] Tuesday May 3rd ADAPT was the first organization to shut down both the Democratic and Republican national headquarters to demand assistance in arranging a meeting with ranking congressional leadership of the committees responsible for health care reform. ADAPT divided its force of 500 to occupy the two headquarters. ADAPT took over all three floors of the DNC and occupied the main floor of the RNC. ln the end neither party succeeded in setting up a single meeting. ADAPT took over both the headquarter buildings simultaneously to drive homo the point that attendant services MUST be part of any health care reform. that people's lives go beyond party politics. People with disabilities told the leadership at both party buildings that without a strong long-term care component as part of health care reform. society will continue to warehouse innocent citizens young and old, with disabilities in modern day concentration camps - nursing homes and institutions And, that the acquittal of Dr. Kevorkisn, means society is already on the road to sanctioning systematic extermination of people with disabilities -people who are just as much a part of the life cycle as able-bodied people. The Congressional leadership's inability - or refusal - to meet drove ADAPT to our next step. [Subheading] Wednesday May 4 Cold, wet and windy it was, but ADAPT's message was the powerful element as we took to the hallways and offices of the Russell Senate and the Rayburn House Office Building. Although seemingly rebuffed by the Congressional Leadership at party headquarters buildings on Tuesday, the message got through to the members of Congress. The effect of Tuesday's actions became very clear when the ADAPT folks who went to the House Offices were greeted with an invite to meet with Representative Dingell (D- IL) Chair of the influential House Energy and Commerce Committee. 250 of the troops packed into a hearing room for the meeting. After some smaller meetings, the ADAPT "House crowd" moved on to the office of [then] Minority Whip Newt Gingrich (R - GA). Lining the halls and packing the office, ADAPT calmly said we would wait when his staffers told us he was not available all day. Shortly thereafter Gingrich miraculously found the time to meet with us. And it was well worth the wait. Gingrich endorsed ADAPT's position on attendant services, promised to work to include such a position in any health care reform and introduce a stand-alone bill for a national attendant services program. Currently, some 1.7 million men, women and children are incarcerated in nursing homes and MUST be liberated! ADAPT‘s demand is simple: re-direct 25% of Medicaid billions currently budgeted for nursing homes to establish s national system of community-based personal assistance services created and controlled by the real experts — people with disabilities. On the Senate side, 250 ADAPTers met with top aides for Senators Kassebaum (R-KS), Kennedy (D-MA), and Moynihan (D- NY) and were assured follow-up meetings back at home. While the walk home was cold and wet, a fire had been lit and a message sent that people with disabilities are not going to sit idle until we have a national attendant services program. [IMAGE] [Caption] Rick James and his mom, Iris, arrested together in Vegas protesting AHCA. Photo: Tom Olin - ADAPT (865)
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