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Ohio governor Kasich's proposal would institutionalize people with disabilities
http://blog.themobilityresource.com/blog/post/ohio-governor-kasich-s-proposal-would-institutionalize-people-with-disabilitiesMany Ohioans with disabilities believe that Gov. John Kasich (R) is a bully whose recently proposed policy would be a blatant infringement of their civil rights, while also supporting the institutional bias, which is the outdated notion that all people with disabilities should be institutionalized.
The Kasich administration proposes to, phase out Independent Providers (IP’s), who provide life-sustaining personal care to individuals in their own homes. The administration claims this move is necessary to order to reduce Medicaid fraud and improve the quality of care for the 16,000 Ohioans with disabilities (including children, seniors, and yours truly) who receive personal care in our homes.
This isn’t the first occasion that Kasich has been accused of employing bullying tactics. However, this is the first time that the disabled citizens of Ohio and their caregivers have pooled their resources and are working together, in conjunction with the Ohio Consumer Voice for Integrated Care (OCVIC), and other advocates to convince state lawmakers that phasing out IP’s is a bad idea for all parties involved....
In addition, Governor Kasich’s proposal would reinforce the institutional bias by imposing institution-like constraints on consumers in our own homes. Unlike IP’s, agency workers are generally not permitted to transport their Consumers out of their homes. Thus, eliminating IPs will restrict the ability of consumers living at home to have full access to the community. Medicaid provides transportation to and from medical appointments but not to a library, grocery store, or a local diner for social interaction with friends.
The Kasich administration proposes to, phase out Independent Providers (IP’s), who provide life-sustaining personal care to individuals in their own homes. The administration claims this move is necessary to order to reduce Medicaid fraud and improve the quality of care for the 16,000 Ohioans with disabilities (including children, seniors, and yours truly) who receive personal care in our homes.
This isn’t the first occasion that Kasich has been accused of employing bullying tactics. However, this is the first time that the disabled citizens of Ohio and their caregivers have pooled their resources and are working together, in conjunction with the Ohio Consumer Voice for Integrated Care (OCVIC), and other advocates to convince state lawmakers that phasing out IP’s is a bad idea for all parties involved....
In addition, Governor Kasich’s proposal would reinforce the institutional bias by imposing institution-like constraints on consumers in our own homes. Unlike IP’s, agency workers are generally not permitted to transport their Consumers out of their homes. Thus, eliminating IPs will restrict the ability of consumers living at home to have full access to the community. Medicaid provides transportation to and from medical appointments but not to a library, grocery store, or a local diner for social interaction with friends.
This flies directly in the face of SCOTUS' 1999 decision in Olmstead v. L.C., which, in a rare moment of lucidity from the Rehnquist Court, found that the Americans With Disabilities Act guarantees the civil right of people with disabilities to live in a community rather than an institutional setting.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_T4
Action T4 (German: Aktion T4, pronounced (akˈtsi̯oːn teː fiːɐ
) was the postwar designation for a programme of forced euthanasia in wartime Nazi Germany. Under the programme physicians were directed to judge patients "incurably sick, by critical medical examination," and then administer to these patients a "mercy death" (German: Gnadentod). In October 1939 Hitler signed a "euthanasia decree" backdated to 1 September 1939 that authorized Reichsleiter Philipp Bouhler, and Karl Brandt, to carry out the programme of euthanasia (translated into English as follows):
Reich Leader Bouhler and Dr. med. Brandt are charged with the responsibility of enlarging the competence of certain physicians, designated by name, so that patients who, on the basis of human judgment (menschlichem Ermessen), are considered incurable, can be granted mercy death (Gnadentod) after a discerning diagnosis. — Adolf Hitler
) was the postwar designation for a programme of forced euthanasia in wartime Nazi Germany. Under the programme physicians were directed to judge patients "incurably sick, by critical medical examination," and then administer to these patients a "mercy death" (German: Gnadentod). In October 1939 Hitler signed a "euthanasia decree" backdated to 1 September 1939 that authorized Reichsleiter Philipp Bouhler, and Karl Brandt, to carry out the programme of euthanasia (translated into English as follows):
Reich Leader Bouhler and Dr. med. Brandt are charged with the responsibility of enlarging the competence of certain physicians, designated by name, so that patients who, on the basis of human judgment (menschlichem Ermessen), are considered incurable, can be granted mercy death (Gnadentod) after a discerning diagnosis. — Adolf Hitler
