Two dozen ADAPT activists in Washington, DC need your support today to deliver a message to US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. While our brave activists face her in person, you can help by clicking on the link below to let Speaker Pelosi know that you want Americans with Disabilities and older Americans to live in freedom.

Speaker Pelosi helped lead passage of landmark health care reform
legislation, but left behind hundreds of thousands of seniors and people
with disabilities who need long term services and supports. Medicaid
still mandates that states pay for nursing facility services while
leaving home and community-based services optional. Speaker Pelosi can lead Congress to reverse this Medicaid institutional bias by sponsoring and working for passage of the Community Choice Act (CCA). CCA is even more critical now, as states slash budgets for "optional" programs and abandon our people to institutions.

Speaker Pelosi has been repeatedly asked to cosponsor the Community
Choice Act and has refused. When ADAPT confronted her in late April,
she told Sam Donaldson that there isn't the money to pay for Community
Choice. We know that Community Choice is affordable and that Americans are willing to pay the modest amount of taxes to give people a REAL CHOICE.

Now and in the days to come, tell Speaker Pelosi that we need her
commitment to pass the Community Choice Act.

The freedom of seniors and people with disabilities is not optional;
it's a fundamental civil right!

Here's a link to the alert: http://www.capwiz.com/rochestercdr/issues/alert/?alertid=15117751&type=CU or http://tiny.cc/pelosi

NATIONAL ADAPT MAILING LIST - Adapt Community Choice Act List http://www.adapt.org