Medicaid Waivers for the Developmentally Disabled - Ideas for Change in America: Support the Petition to Eliminate Waitlists for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities

Support the Petition to Eliminate Waitlists for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities

Help us to eliminate waiting lists for people with developmental disabilities!

Sign the petition to eliminate waiting lists for disabilities at:
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/noewait.html

Our goal is get 500,000 signatures in the next 6 months. Please tell others about the petition as well.

It reads:
A Resolution:

Health Care Reform Must Eliminate Waitlists and
Allow for the Continuation/Portability of Services Across State Lines

Submitted to the President of the United States and Congress

WE HEREBY:

RECOGNIZE that across the country hundreds of thousands of people with intellectual and other developmental disabilities languish on “waiting lists” for services and supports and cannot move freely from state to state once they acquire services, as they then go to the bottom of the waiting lists in their new state;

RECOGNIZE that the failure to provide funding for vital and critical services and supports creates waitlists that require years to climb to the top of the list;

RECOGNIZE that the failure to provide services and supports can lead to the loss of skills, unemployment, isolation, and family crises including serious emotional, physical health problems and premature death;

RECOGNIZE that the failure to allow for the continuation/portability of services across state lines causes people to lose their supports when they move to another state because of job relocations, military transfers, or the need to take care of a vulnerable family member.

AFFIRM through signature of this resolution that our country’s laws must be changed and federal funds provided to help states eliminate the waitlists and authorize continuation/portability of services and supports;

SEEK SOLUTIONS and LEADERSHIP to solve this critical problem;

URGE the President and Congress to work together to eliminate waitlists and provide continuation/portability to services and supports to this country’s population with intellectual and other developmental disabilities inconjunction with health care reform.

To keep informed on this vital issue, email noewait@noewait.net with the subject, “Keep me informed.” Mail completed petitions to PO Box 411, Parker, CO 80134, fax to 303 689-9221 or scan and email to noewait@noewait.net

The time period for fulfilling this pledge has ended.

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starvin marvin Hooterville, North Dakota, and Taffee, Minnesota and Big Beavers, OR @ 07:57PM PT Oct 28

my cat is developmentally disabled
Gary Anderson @ 10:39AM PT Sep 16

Becaue my brother has a developmentak disability and needs the funding to help him. He needs the help to live as rich and fulfilling life as posible. These are the people that need our help.
Edward Janus | Disability Advocate and Activist Northlake,, IL @ 05:37AM PT Sep 14
Pledge fulfilled Sep 14!

Edward Janus | Disability Advocate and Activist.
Doing Daily Internet Activism for Supporting Causes of Change. And Fighting for Persons With Disabilities.

I signed and Completed Pledge. Signed Petition.
And I posted both on my Facebook & Twitter sites. Thanks.

Sincerely,
Edward Janus | Disability Advocate and Activist
10707 Wrightwood Ave. Northlake, IL. 60164
EdwardJanus.net | Disability Network Connections.
http://www.change.org/profiles/edwardjanus
Soodle Billy Co.Dublin, Ireland @ 10:43AM PT Sep 11
Pledge fulfilled Sep 11!

Congratulations. You have successfully signed the petition:
Eliminate Waitlists for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities.
Just *C* Mosheim, TN @ 06:46AM PT Sep 10
Pledge fulfilled Sep 10!

You are signer #9957
Ann Cawley Saint Joseph, MO @ 06:35AM PT Sep 10

Congratulations. You have successfully signed the petition:
Eliminate Waitlists for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities.

You are signer #9952
Mike Ruef @ 03:31PM PT Jul 06

Persons with developmental disabilties are both human beings and citizens with many gifts to share. When provided with "full citizenship", the citizenship that the rest of us enjoy, they can contribute to our society in unique and meaningful ways.
Marilou Kishur @ 05:36PM PT Jul 05

Disabled folks who are already at a disadvantage should not be put on a wait list to have their needs met. Once their needs are defined and prescribed, they should be provided. These are people - living, breathing, growing people. They are not machines to turn off until the economy might be better; or the planets align; or whatever the excuse might be.
Marcia Roth @ 06:58AM PT Jun 26

Dumping individuals on the street or shutting them away in jails is the result of waiting lists. End the medicaid institutional bias and implement Olmstead to end the wait lists. Provide services to create positive supports for life in the family home and community not segregated agency buildings.
Dennis Anello @ 05:33PM PT Jun 19

this seems so basic...