The long awaited article updating the cost for MiCASSA and the Community Choice Act is finally out and published. Click for a PDF version of the article.
In summary, the study, done by UCSF researchers Mitchell LaPlante, PhD, Stephen Kaye, PhD, and Charlene Harrington, PhD, shows that the original Congressional Budget Office cost estimates greatly overestimated the number of people who would use Community Services and Supports as provided under the bill, and that the cost would be $2.0 to $5.7 billion -- as opposed to the CBO estimate of $10 to $20 billion. The authors also point out in their summary that these services would go a long way to ending the institutional bias in Medicaid and are an extension of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Supreme Court's Olmstead decision.
For more information:
NATIONAL ADAPT WEBSITE
Adapt Community Choice Act List.
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