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United Cerebral Palsy publicly released a report today "The Case for Inclusion 2007," on how states are serving Americans with intellectual and developmental disabilities under Medicaid. The report ranks all 50 states and the District of Columbia on how well the states are providing community-based supports. The full report and state-by-state break-downs on more than 40 data categories (not all of which are included in the report) are available at www.ucp.org/medicaid. The report and data provide a tool to compare how your state is doing in comparison to the rest of the country. And whether your state ranks first (Arizona) or 51st (Mississippi) in the overall rankings, the report and data clearly reveal that every state has room for improvement. Some of the report's key findings include:
This is the second year that UCP has scored and ranked states on their Medicaid-funded services to Americans with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The 2007 rankings were developed with a new methodology that is more comprehensive and focused and, therefore, does not allow easy comparison to the 2006 rankings. UCP plans to use this new methodology as the foundation for any future rankings, providing advocates and elected officials with a vehicle for year-to-year comparisons on how their state is performing. Additional detail on how the rankings were compiled is available on page nine of The Case for Inclusion 2007. You are encouraged to share The Case for Inclusion 2007 with advocates, opinion leaders and elected officials in your state. If you have any specific questions about the report content, please contact the report's author, Tarren Bragdon, at tbragdon@ucp.org.
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