Tom Harkin: “all this modification does is it changes the first year, but it leaves…”

On the recordJune 25, 2003

all this modification does is it changes the first year, but it leaves everything else the same. This was $350 million each of the 5 years. This is now $300 million in the first year, and $350 million for each of the 4 years thereafter. So again, as I said, 13 years ago we passed the Americans with Disabilities Act. We said no to segregation of people with disabilities. Ever since that time, Medicaid still continues to segregate people. When 70 percent of their money goes for institutional care, and only 30 percent goes for community-based care, it is time to break that down and give people with disabilities the right to exercise their own choice about where they want to live. And that, really, is the essence of the amendment. I hope Senators will support the amendment overwhelmingly since, as I said, it was in the President's 2004 budget and the offset we have used is also fully supported by the administration.

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Tom Harkin

Democratic · Iowa

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Discussing an amendment related to funding for community-based care for people with disabilities.

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Tom Harkin: “all this modification does is it changes the first year, but it leaves everything else the same. This was $350 million…”

Editor's note · Context