The Supreme Court's Olmstead decision requires states to offer home care as an alternative to nursing homes. Low income elderly and disabled Americans rely on Medicaid programs to provide these home care and hospice services.
States are struggling to preserve Medicaid home and community-based care programs but a reduction in the federal contribution to Medicaid could seriously undermine access to home care and hospice and set back these efforts.
Please protect the right choose home health and hospice for low income Medicaid beneficiaries by opposing proposals that would reduce federal Medicaid funding! Read More.