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Wisconsin has been a leader in covering its residents with high-quality health care and providing community supports so people with disabilities and frail elders can stay in their homes and communities and out of costly facilities. The American Health Care Act poses a particularly dangerous threat to our state’s residents, in part because we have done so much right. One in five Wisconsinites use Medicaid and nearly a quarter-million get health care coverage under the Affordable Care Act.
In a January 17 editorial John Torinus asserts that Medicaid block grants proposed by state and federal leaders could benefit Wisconsin. As the Protection and Advocacy agency in our state, that provides support to ensure the civil rights of Wisconsinites with the most significant disabilities, we beg to differ. Wisconsin Medicaid programs provide life sustaining services for 1.1 million (1 in 5) Wisconsinites: seniors; children and adults with disabilities; and working families.
This year is the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act and a historic year for people with disabilities. The ADA affords civil rights protections to individuals with disabilities similar to those provided to individuals on the basis of race, color, sex, national origin, age and religion.
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