ADAPT, In DC, Wants Hearings
WASHINGTON, DC, March 20, 2004 -- Determined to be heard on removing the nation¹s institutional bias in Medicaid funded long term care services, hundreds ADAPT activists are converging on Washington, D.C.this week to press for legislative hearings scheduled on the Medicaid Community Attendant Services and Supports Act, or MiCASSA, which has been stalled in Congress. A march to the White House at sundown on Sunday, March 21 kicked off the event, with marchers carrying signs reading"No More Stolen Lives: End the Institutional Bias" and "No More Waiting for Home and Community Services."