The Future of Long-Term Services as Viewed through the Prism of Health Reform Legislation

July 15, 2009

Robert M. Gettings of the National Association of State Directors of Developmental Disabilities Services wrote this Policy Insight, Volume 1, Issue 3. In this brief, he asks, as President Obama and Congress forge legislative solutions to the current health care crisis, are they overlooking equally compelling arguments for reforming long-term services needed by some ten million Americans with severe, chronic disabilities? This bulletin deals with the impact of health reform legislation on persons with lifelong disabilities explores the similarities and differences in underlying strategies for restructuring health care and long-term services policies nationwide.

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