Advocates for the mentally retarded are challenging Attorney General Troy King's claim that "millions of dollars in additional funds" are in the proposed state budget to help mentally retarded adults on long waiting lists for treatment and housing...King sent a letter to Alabama newspapers this week, defending his decision to stop the state's proposed settlement of a lawsuit that would have required the state to pay its share of Medicaid costs for services to mentally retarded adults...The state Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation had reached a proposed settlement with families who sued over the waiting list, but King refused to approve it. King wrote that federal consent decrees, like the one proposed, "prove to be impossible to comply with, seeming to almost never end, and they ultimately divert already scarce resources."
AP Wire | 02/25/2006 | Advocates for mentally retarded challenge attorney general
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