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Subject: May 3 celebration MT, MO & UT
Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 14:29:58 -0400
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Some more great plans and ideas for May 3!

-----Original Message-----
From: Barbara Toomer [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2000 5:14 PM

Stephanie:  ADAPT/Utah will work with a coalition of disability
organizations to hold the teleconference at the UCP headquarters.  They
have a much better telephone system than the rest of us!  We also are
holding a press conference with stories at that time.

Barbara Toomer

********

Here in St. Louis, we're planning a kick off too!    The Mayor, is
sending
us a letter of support for MiCASSA.  Also, Michael Finkelstien from Mo
P&A
is coming to sign them on as a MiCASSA Supporter.
We will have a big letter there for groups to sign on.  We sent
invitation
flyers out to our MO Reps, Senators, Gov. and over 200 disability
groups!  I
got speakers to hook into my speaker phone and we'll
be doing it at the Old Dred Scott Courthouse.  Also coming and speaking
are
two people still trapped in nursing homes and one new spunky advocate
who
just got on the new waiver program and is lovin it!!   Take Care, Good
Luck

Michelle

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Montana Campaign for Real Choice
For Immediate Release               Contact: Bob Liston
May 1, 2000                                 (406) 829-9495
                                                    Peter Leech
                                                    (406) 243-4597

Missoula Event to Mark Kick Off of Medicaid Reform Legislation

As part of the national Campaign for Real Choice in long term care, a
coalition of Montana supporters  of MiCASSA (SB1935)  will hold a press
event
Wednesday May 3rd, beginning at 9:45am in the Rural Institute on
Disabilities
conference room, located in the Student Health Services Building at 634
Eddy
on the University of Montana campus.  The Missoula event will be one of
a
national network of events in over 40 locations, including the nation's
Capitol.

The main event, in Washington, D.C.,  marks the kick off for the
Medicaid
Community Attendant Services and Supports Act (MiCASSA), co-sponsored by
Sen.
Tom Harkin (D, Iowa) and Sen. Arlen Specter(R, Pennsylvania).  MiCASSA
would
level the Medicaid long term care playing field by ending the funding
bias
toward nursing homes and other institutions. Instead, money would
follow
the
eligible individual who could choose to receive services in the
community
instead of being forced into an institution or nursing home.

"This Campaign for Real Choice 2000 event will communicate to Congress
and
the Presidential candidates the community's overwhelming desire for
fundamental reform of the Medicaid long term care system." said event
co-organizer Peter Leech of the Rural Institute on Disability. Added Bob
Liston of ADAPT/Montana. "Nearly 500 hundred national, state and local
organizations from across the country  have officially endorsed MiCASSA,
including at least six from Montana."

The event will include  telephone addresses by Senator Harkin and
Senator
Specter who will take questions during the press conference following
their
addresses.  In Missoula, there will be discussion about MiCASSA, and
what it
means for all  Montanans, after the press conference.


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