Comments about ‘Disabled-rights group calls for reform’

All of the cost comparisons that I've heard about indicate that home health care is cheaper than institutionalization. All Medicaid pays for my long-term care are my attendants. I pay my own mortgage, utilities, groceries, etc. - things Medicaid pays for in an institutional setting. I also don't need an Activities Director, Dietitian or Executive Director - other things that Medicaid provides in an institutional setting.

Such institutional bias has to be the workings of nursing home lobbyists. Candidate Obama promised us that kind of political decision making would come to an end under his administration. The disability community voted for him by an overwhelming majority. We must insist that he keeps his promise to free our people!

Though some of our freedom of speech is gone, lately, we will say that someone has to make SOME laws that change the unlawful imprisonment that disabled people have inside of some of the worst nursing homes, AND inside of some of the better ones.

There are nursing homes in staten island new york that need to be totally closed down.

Give disabled the moneyto LIVE in their own homes. Let them get home health care for everything that they need.

The only reason this has not happened yet is because the nursing homes LOBBY and spend LOTs of money in government...to keep these bad nursing homes open.

Let the people CHOOSE where they want to live. That is fair.