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[Headline] FREE OUR PEOPLE: ADAPT Leads March for MiCASSA

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[image caption] PHOTO BY TOM OLIN. Rep. Dennis Moore, center, plays Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land" while, left to right, Rep. John Shinkus, Sen. Tom Harkin and Rep. Danny Davis join in at ADAPT's MiCASSA rally.

More than two hundred people from more than 25 states and two from Switzerland, most using wheelchairs, traveled 144 miles from the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, Pa. to Washington, D.C. in ADAPT's Free Our People March, Sept. 4 through 17 to emphasize to Congress the need to pass MiCASSA, the Medicaid Community-based At-tendant Services and Supports Act (S971 and HR 2032).

Marchers endured thunder-storms and intense heat to emphasize the need to keep people out of nursing homes. Federal law guarantees funding for nursing horns., but does not guarantee that the same dollars are spent to help people stay in their own homes, which most feel would be a significant sayings to taxpayers.

"We've been working for over ten years to get this legislation passed," said Eric von Schmetterling of Philadelphia ADAPT at the start of the march, "and Congress keeps re-fusing to act, despite the fact that there are 600 organizational supporters and despite the fact that every additional day they keep their heads in the sand, they are wasting the lives of older and disabled Americans who remain warehoused in this

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