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The Disability Community’s Recipe for Freedom
- Pass Build Back Better
To prepare this you will need $150 billion for Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) sprinkled with $ 150 billion for Affordable, Accessible, Integrated, Housing. Spread these ingredients throughout the community and allow to settle in.
- Once these funds have been infused in the community; they are ready to be used to:
- Expand HCBS in Medicaid, Medicare and the Affordable Care Act throughout to increase access, quality, and uniformity nationwide.
- Increase payment rates in a manner that offers attendants a “living wage.”
- Expand affordable, accessible, integrated housing development and rent subsidy programs targeting low- and moderate-income people with disabilities, especially people who receive HCBS services.
- Expand access to accessible home modifications programs to enable people to leave or avoid institutional settings thus saving millions of health care dollars.
- And to ensure that your recipe is a success, make the program Money Follows the Person permanent.
This recipe will help more people be Home for The Holidays!
Season Greetings!
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