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The long awaited article updating the cost for MiCASSA and the Community
Choice Act is finally out and published. Below is a link to a PDF version of
the article. As soon as we can get a text version to you as well, we will.
In summary, the study, done by UCSF researchers Mitchell LaPlante, PhD,
Stephen Kaye, PhD, and Charlene Harrington, PhD, shows that the original
Congressional Budget Office cost estimates greatly overestimated the number of
people who would use Community Services and Supports as provided under the
bill, and that the cost would be $2.0 to $5.7 billion -- as opposed to the CBO
estimate of $10 to $20 billion. The authors also point out in their summary
that these services would go a long way to ending the institutional bias in
Medicaid and are an extension of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the
Supreme Court's Olmstead decision.
Here is a link to the PDF file:
http://www.adapt.org/freeourpeople/download/estimating%20expense.pdf
NATIONAL ADAPT MAILING LIST - Adapt Community Choice Act List
http://www.adapt.org
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