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Please contact your Governors to support this.
Dana(C4-5, 30 years post)
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The New Mexico folks are to be congratulated!!!!
NM Governor Bill Richardson has signed and endorsed the National Governor's
Association resolution!
Background: at the NGA meeting in Seattle this past summer ADAPT got
Pennsylvania Governor Rendell to agree to introduce this resolution supporting
MiCASSA, Money Follows the Person, Olmstead implementation and more.
The Resolution will be introduced and voted on in the NGA February meeting and
the more Governors we have supporting it, the better.
We need your help with this.
Has your Governor signed on?
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RESOLUTION
Commitment To Community-based Long Term Care Services and Support
WHEREAS millions of people with disabilities and older Americans currently
need or will need long term services and supports to live in the community
and this number is expected to grow at a rapid pace over the next three
decades; and
WHEREAS the current long term care system is fragmented, overly medicalized,
bureaucratic, expensive with an institutional bias that unnecessarily forces
people with disabilities and older Americans in nursing homes and other
institutions; and
WHEREAS the Supreme Court in the Olmstead vs. LC & EW decision ruled in
1999 that people have the right to services in the most integrated setting;
and
WHEREAS the American public overwhelmingly supports long term care
services and supports be provided in their own home and communities; and
WHEREAS the reform of the long term care (services and supports) system
must be a cooperative partnership between the federal government, the states
and the disability/older community,
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the National Governors Association, NGA, by
a vote of the membership and the Executive Committee supports the following:
A) The current long term services and support system has an institutional
bias that must be reformed through a cooperative effort by the federal
government, the states and the disability/older community including those
who use services; and
B) The long term services and support system must include the principles
that home and community services and supports are the first priority and
that support services should be provided in the most integrated setting;
and
C) No person with a disability or older American should be forced into a
nursing home or other institution because of the lack of integrated home
and community options; and
D) People with disabilities and older Americans must have full inclusion
in the design, implementation and review of the long term services and
support system; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the NGA supports the passage and funding of
the Medicaid Community Attendant Services and Supports Act, MiCASSA
(currently
S971 - HR 2032) and legislation that include the Money Follows the Person
initiative (currently S.1394 - HR 1811); and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the NGA work with the individual states to
assure that the Supreme Court's Olmstead decision is aggressively
implemented and that the measure of this implementation be, in a year, how
many people have gotten out of nursing homes and other institutions and
how many people have been diverted from nursing homes and other institutions;
and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the NGA work with the states to assure that
any 1115 waivers submitted by a State should have statewide public hearings
before development and submission to HHS, and that the 1115 waiver process
should not be used to undercut current community Medicaid services and
federal protections; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the NGA supports reform of the long term
services and support system that does not result in block granting,
capitating or otherwise reducing or eliminating funding to the states or
the removal of the current national Medicaid protections.
Passed this day ____________ February 2005
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