On the recordNovember 13, 1997
I rise today to declare my enthusiastic support for H.R. 2020, the Medicaid Attendant Community Services Act. This bill is of vital importance, because in all of our districts and throughout America, there are hundreds and thousands of people who have been taken from their families, stripped of their assets, and deprived of their basic human rights because they have disabilities or chronic health conditions. Our current system of disbursing Medicaid funds encourages and rewards this injustice. I recently met with a group of my constituents with disabilities that are physically challenged. Many had lived in nursing homes, not because they had wanted to, but because our system gave them no other choice. They simply want to live independently. H.R. 2020 will give them the opportunity to do just that.
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