Improving Health Coverage for Americans with Disabilities: Policy Options for the President-elect and the 111th Congress

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Article Publication Date: 
12/3/2008
Summary: 
The author focuses on Medicaid and Medicare in offering healthcare reform suggestions. Both legislative and administrative actions are proposed regarding eligibility and enrollment, access to services, program management and delivery systems issues, and financing. Several options relate to HCBS, such as protecting spouses of the medically needy, expanding eligibility for SSI-related groups, and issuing further guidance on waiver waiting lists.
Article Author: 
Crowley, Jeffrey S.
Topics: 
Medicaid Waivers
Sources: 
Georgetown University O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law
Programs/Initiatives: 
Olmstead
SSI; Social Security Income; Empowered at Home Act; 1915(i); reform; EPSDT; Community Choice Act; Empowered at Home Act; AIDS;

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Jeffrey Crowley
Senior Scholar
Georgetown University O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law
jsc26@georgetown.edu

Short URL: http://www.advancingstates.org/node/51789