TAKE ACTION: Disability community's support is critical to passage of the Build Back Better Act

The House of Representatives just passed the Build Back Better Act but it now faces an uncertain future as it gets to the U.S. Senate. This legislation represents significant progress towards fulfilling key goals of the disability community. If passed, it would provide a permanent improvement in Medicaid home and community-based services (HCBS), with an investment of $150 billion over the first 10 years after enactment.  This funding to states would be used to clear waitlists for home-based care, which can be years-long, and to increase wages for caregivers. 

Additionally, it would permanently reauthorize the Medicaid Money Follows the Person program, which has helped more than 100,000 people since its inception transition out of institutional settings such as nursing homes in order to live in their communities.  It would also provide permanent protections for spouses of Medicaid HCBS recipients against being impoverished.

Please contact your members of Congress today and ask them to support this transformational bill for the disability community. All you need to do is to submit the online petition HERE.