Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Letter to Wichita Eagle: Remove DD from KanCare proposal

A letter to the Wichita Eagle Editorial Board:


Remove DD from KanCare proposal

We are still very concerned that long-term care services have not yet been removed from the Brownback administration’s KanCare managed-care proposal. Our daughter Julie is a 26-year-old young lady with severe intellectual disabilities, cerebral palsy and epilepsy.

We understand that there needs to be a way to control spending, but the companies that are bidding on the managed-care contract do not have experience providing services to this population. Further, the services that exist for people with developmental disabilities in our community have been built from the ground up as a response to the needs of our community. They have been fine-tuned over decades to fit the specific needs of those with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

This is something we should be proud of and protect, not something we should allow to be destroyed.
We are watching this issue closely. We expect DD long-term care services to be removed from KanCare. Lawmakers should take any and all action necessary to remove DD long-term care services from the current managed-care proposal.

CONNIE and STAN ZIENKEWICZ
Wichita




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