POSTED ON MONDAY, June 22, 2020
NAHC and a group of like-minded organizations joined to urge the Senate to include Medicaid Home and Community Based Services in the next COVID-19 relief package. The letter was signed by NAHC and 251 other organizations is asking Senators McConnell (R-KY) and Schumer (D-NY), the Republican and Democratic leaders in the Senate, respectively, to make sure the next COVID-19 relief legislation address the vital needs of people with disabilities and aging adults.
“While the COVID-19 legislative packages passed by Congress thus far have been expansive, they all but ignored the critical needs of the disability and aging communities. Thankfully, the HEROES Act that passed the House on May 15, 2020 did include several provisions imperative to the lives of people with disabilities and aging adults. These provisions must remain in the bill that ultimately passes the Senate.
In particular, the dedicated funding for Medicaid Home and Community-based (HCBS) services is of utmost importance for the disability and aging communities. Those funds are necessary to support the workforce that provides critical services to people with disabilities and aging adults, the service providers that employ that workforce, and the people who rely on those services to live safely in their homes and communities. The home and community-based service system, already overburdened before the pandemic, does not have the resources it needs to safely support people with disabilities and aging adults through this crisis. Without additional resources, aging adults and people with disabilities will be forced to leave their homes and communities and move into congregate settings, a failure to safeguard their civil rights and a grave risk to their health–as demonstrated by severe and persistent outbreaks in nursing facilities, institutions and other congregate settings.”
Source: NAHC Report
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