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Harrington, C. & Newcomer, R. (2004). California Long Term Care Budget Issues for 2004. Published on the Center for PAS website http://pascenter.org/news/calongtermcare.php
Abstract
For Immediate Release
Wednesday, January 21, 2004
Media Contact
Kathleen Miller (510) 773-7102
Professors Charlene Harrington, Ph.D., and Robert Newcomer, Ph.D.,* have released a statement detailing the potentially devastating impact of Governor Schwarzenegger’s budget proposals for the elderly, blind and people with disabilities in California. Harrington and Newcomer’s paper states the Governor’s plans to cut $600 million, or about 29 percent, of the current In Home Supportive Services [IHSS] Budget can result in “many negative consequences for individuals including: pain, negative health outcomes, hospitalization, nursing home placement and death.” The statement questions the merits of the cuts to the In Home Supportive Services program on the basis of possible non-compliance with the Supreme Court’s Olmstead ruling, the effects of the cuts upon the already severe homecare labor shortage, and whether the cuts actually make financial sense.
They state that a “prevailing and severe _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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