In a message dated 9/21/2011 9:26:11 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
----- Original Message ----- From: stephanie adapt To: [email protected] ; Bob ; Cathy Cranston ; Danny Saenz Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2011 5:59 PM Subject: FW: FW: [dpcnet] Sept 21st Call In From: Ginger Mayeaux [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2011 5:26 PM To: stephanie adapt Cc: [email protected]; Chase Bearden; Sarah Watkins; Danny Saenz; Bob Kafka Subject: Re: FW: [dpcnet] Sept 21st Call In Here is what converts PDF to word for free. I have not personally used it, but the communications director at The Arc has used it twice successfully! http://www.pdftoword.com/ Ginger Mayeaux, MSSW "True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it understands that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring" --Dr. Martin Luther King On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 5:16 PM, stephanie adapt <[email protected]> wrote: Consuelo, we found a toll free number people can call for the September 21st call-in: Use this toll free number 866-324-0787 to call: .Representative Jeb Hensarling (R-TX), co-chair .Representative James Clyburn (D-SC) When the switchboard answers, just ask for their offices. ************ For all the details, what to say, etc. you can go to this link http://ly.adapt.org/calls what do you say. Is that the above. Make sure you say that you do not want to block grants as the money would not go directly into home and community-based services, as it always has by getting matching grants from the federal government. A block grant allows the governor to decide where the money goes. It's not enough money to run home and community-based services. Please call your legislators and Representative Jeb Hensaring cochairmen and Representative James Clyburn. Call the number and ask for each Representative. You will probably need to call five times for them. Be sure and call Senators of your state and your state representative. These 2 Representatives are members of the super committee that will be cutting Medicaid and support block grants that will destroy Home and community-based services. Our Kansas Gov. Brownback is also is in favor of block grants. Please call your Senators and Representatives in Washington and the above Representative of the super committee.. and then just click on Texas NATIONAL ADAPT MAILING LIST - Adapt Community Choice Act List http://www.adapt.org (http://www.adapt.org/main) _Welcome to ADAPT!_ (http://www.adapt.org/main) > _Medicaid Rally_ (http://www.adapt.org/main/medicaid_rally) > Medicaid_savings ADAPT has identified proposals that contain Medicaid spending while supporting our right to live in the most integrated setting and control our lives: Expand the use of community-based services. Studies have demonstrated that by reducing the over-reliance on institutions and nursing facilities and shifting toward more cost-effective community-based services, states can contain Medicaid spending. Despite the growing body of evidence showing that community-based services are more cost effective, the federal government still allows states to continue their wasteful, institutionally-biased practices. Demedicalize services. By reducing the reliance on costly medical personnel to provide assistance by allowing attendants to perform these tasks, states could use the same amount of Medicaid funding to support more seniors and people with disabilities living in their own homes. Changes in state Nurse Practices Acts could save millions of Medicaid dollars. Many of the long term services that are widely perceived as “medical” become a basic part of daily life to a person with disabilities. States continue to require that medical personnel provide such services, unnecessarily increasing Medicaid’ s costs. Expand consumer directed service options. By empowering people to manage their own services and reducing the need for administrative overhead, states can also reduce Medicaid expenditures. Many seniors and people with disabilities can manage their services and supervise the people providing the direct care, reducing the need for agencies to provide supervisory and administrative supports like training and scheduling. Reorganize Medicaid services to eliminate wasteful bureaucracy. The current system wastefully organizes services based on diagnosis and age even though people may have the same functional needs. By organizing services based on functional needs states can eliminate redundant and needlessly expensive bureaucracies and reduce Medicaid expenditures. 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