FREE OUR PEOPLE Co-Sponsors Needed for Community Choice Act

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REMINDER ALERT: Ask your Members to Cosponsor the Community Choice
Act!!

The Senate Finance Committee has recently scheduled a hearing on
the Community Choice Act for September 25, 2007. Between now and
then, let's make a rumble in both the House and the Senate to drum
up some new co-sponsors for the legislation!

Under Medicaid, every state must provide nursing home services,
but community-based services remain optional. The Community Choice
Act is about real choice It seeks to put highly personal choices
back into the hands of the individuals directly affected by giving
equal access to community-based supports for those eligible for
nursing home and ICF-MR services. It also enhances federal
matching funds to help states offer greater flexibility in
delivering services and supports the way citizens want them.
Rather than inventing a new entitlement, the Community Choice Act
makes the existing one more flexible.

WHAT: Contact your Senators and Representatives and urge them to
cosponsor the Community Choice Act (S.799, H.R. 1621).

HOW: Visit www.senate.gov and www.house.gov to determine your
Members of Congress.

AFTER YOU ACT: We encourage you to let us know if you've reached
out to any of your Members' offices with this message. That way,
we can come behind and do some more encouraging in specific
offices.

SOURCE: AAPD (American Association of Persons with Disabilities)