MiCASSA Supporters and Money Follows the Person Supporters
November 2003

The 108th Congress has approximately a month left before they adjourn for the "holiday" break. (Nobody knows for sure when they will finish their work.) On November 23rd a major article on home and community based services (HCBS) and related issues will published in the NY Times Magazine.

What you can do now and through the "holiday" break to continue to getting/keeping folks out of institutions and
reverse the institutional bias:

1. Continue to push your Senator(s) and Representative(s) to be co-sponsors of MiCASSA (S. 971 and HR. 2032);

2. Passionately tell them you want hearings on MiCASSA by March 31, 2004 in the Senate Finance and House Energy and Commerce Committees;

3. Continue to push your Senator(s) to be a co-sponsor of Senator Harkin's "Money Follows the Person" bill, S. 1394;

4. The Bush Administration has still not introduced its' "Money Follow the Person" legislation (NFI Medicaid Demonstration Act of 2003); Make it clear to the White House and Congress that "Money Follows the Person" will help people get out of nursing homes and other institutions and assist states in implementing the Olmstead decision.

Please continue your grassroots advocacy!!

If you have any questions:
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