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		<title>Home services disappearing as states slash Medicaid</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/05/20/home-services-disappear-29606/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 15:48:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Wall Street Journal: Around the country, shrinking state budgets and rising health-care costs are forcing drastic cuts in home services to people with disabilities. Because federal mandates restrict what states may cut inside Medicaid, states are often cutting basic services that help people with disabilities remain in their own homes. This is happening [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hundreds of disability advocates rally at Kansas statehouse</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/04/28/hundreds-of-disability-advocates-rally-at-kansas-statehouse-29371/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 03:08:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Topeka Capital-Journal,  AP/ABC News: An estimated 600 people with disabilities and their allies rallied at the Kansas state Capitol Wednesday in a show of support for social services and higher taxes, saying legislators have a responsibility to protect people who are vulnerable. Hours later, an opposing group of about 300 rallied against tax hikes. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Editorial: Assure lives of dignity to those with disabilities</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/01/07/editorial-dignity-maryland-26979/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 05:46:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The editorial board of the Baltimore Sun says Maryland lawmakers should make people with developmental disabilities a top priority this year. An excerpt: Maryland, despite its wealth, has lagged for years in services for its most vulnerable residents and those who give over their lives to care for them. The system is fast approaching a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Op-ed: &#8216;Our most vulnerable people deserve a full chance in life&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/11/10/waiting-list-kansas-25242/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:39:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lisa Cannady]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing in the Kansas City Star, Lisa Cannady says Kansans like her son Pierce must endure years on waiting lists before they can get the government services they&#8217;re entitled to receive. An excerpt: There is something, collectively, in us that has allowed us to ignore the most vulnerable among us. From the waiting list that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1,600 Mississippians on waiting lists for home care</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/10/21/mississippi-waiting-lists-24456/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:05:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Clarion [MS] Ledger: More than 1,800 people with mental or developmental disabilities are receiving home and community-based services in Mississippi, but almost as many &#8212; nearly 1,600 &#8212; are enrolled on waiting lists for the services. Ed LeGrand, executive director of the state&#8217;s mental health department, said he expects that the number of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Experts fear NJ autism plan will dilute care, not enhance it</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/10/19/nj-autism-offic-24343/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:47:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Philadelphia Inquirer: A New Jersey plan to open a state Office of Autism Services has drawn mixed reactions from disability advocates. While parents express enthusiasm, experts in the disability community say the state is creating a two-tiered system that favors one diagnosis at the expense of people with other disabilities. The governor&#8217;s Adults [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World War II vets caught in disability backlog</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/10/14/world-war-ii-vets-24048/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:40:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Debbie Burak]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Houston Chronicle: World War II veterans face a special urgency as the nation&#8217;s oldest generation of veterans are added to a growing backlog of disability claims at the Department of Veterans Affairs. Even as the numbers of aging veterans dwindle daily, the VA adds their claims to a waiting list that can take [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Editorial: People with disabilities lack clout, hope</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/09/10/clout-in-kansas-22157/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:46:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[adult living]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Kansas City Star Editorial Board writes that people with developmental disabilities plead for help in the state Capitol annually, but keep getting pushed aside. More than 4,100 Kansans are on waiting lists for residential and home-based services &#8212; waiting lists that didn&#8217;t exist as recently as the 1990s. Waiting means delayed therapy for children [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alabama settles waiting list lawsuit</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/08/06/alabama-waiting-list-21415/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/08/06/alabama-waiting-list-21415/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:39:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[intellectual/developmental disabilities]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Birmingham News: Alabama has agreed to settle a nine-year-old lawsuit over the state&#8217;s lengthy waiting list for services for people with intellectual disabilities. The settlement does not force the state to spend more money on services, but will provide families with more information about what services are available and where they stand on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Father launches a fight against Florida waiting list</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/08/04/florida-waiting-list-21259/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/08/04/florida-waiting-list-21259/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 15:29:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[advocacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[autism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[epilepsy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Agency for Persons with Disabilities]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From AP/Gainesville [FL] Sun: Advocate Mike Coonan has launched an organization called &#8220;Left Behind in Florida,&#8221; to lobby for the more than 18,000 people in Florida waiting to receive services from the state&#8217;s Agency for Persons with Disabilities. Coonan&#8217;s 26-year-old son has epilepsy and autism. He lives at home and works at a local supermarket [...]]]></description>
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