ADAPT Confronts #BuildBackBetter Holdouts

Disability Activists Confront #BuildBackBetter Holdout Senators 

Who: National ADAPT

What: Confronting Democratic Senators blocking passage of the Build Back Better social infrastructure bill

Where: Outside Hart Senate Office Building at 120 Constitution Ave NE, Washington, DC 20002, Offices of Sen. Kyrsten Sinema and Sen. Joe Manchin

When: Happening Now, Wednesday, October 6, 2021

Why: To demand Sen. Sinema and Sen. Manchin stop blocking passage of the Build Back Better social infrastructure bill, and support full funding of Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS), which keeps people out of institutions. HCBS funding also provides living wages for the attendants who provide essential, often intimate care for older and disabled people. ADAPT is also demanding that both senators support funding for affordable, accessible, integrated housing, because you can’t have HCBS without the “H.”

ADAPT Demands Congress to Immediately Pass the Build Better Act with FULL funding for Home and Community Based Services and Housing Options

ADAPT has been urging Congress to Act of these critical issues for over 30 years. These programs enable people to live outside institutions and in freedom in their communities. Full Funding means the following: 

1. Expansion of HCBS under Medicaid, Medicare, and the Affordable Care Act as a required service in all states (rather than a waiver-based program) to increase access, quality, uniformity nationwide. 
   
   
2. Increase payment rates in a manner that will guarantee a “living wage” and benefits to attendant care workers employed in home care. 
   
   
3. Expand affordable, accessible housing development and rent subsidy programs targeting low and moderate income people with disabilities, especially people who receive HCBS services. 
   
   
4. Expand access to accessible home modifications programs to enable people to leave or avoid institutional settings thus saving millions of health care dollars. 

These priorities target people with low incomes and do not create new programs. It is time for Congress to keep its promise to ADAPT and Americans to invest in the long term care infrastructure.

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