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Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law. (June 2009). Still waiting…the unfulfilled promise of Olmstead: A call to action on the 10th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision. Washington, DC: Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law. Abstract
A call to action, the report details how federal and state governments can use community-based services and supports for people with mental illnesses to save billions of dollars and improve healthcare outcomes.
Main points of the report include:
-States must determine how many people with disabilities are served in unnecessarily segregated settings and what community-based services are necessary to support reintegration and recovery. They then must shift funding from institutions to community-based services.
-Implementing Olmstead programs through health care reform would save billions of taxpayer dollars by making essential community services available to people with mental illnesses.
-Often pressured by profit-making providers, states continue to waste valuable resources by placing people with mental illnesses in costly, ineffective institutional settings. The cost of a supportive apartment is one eighth that of state hospital care, just over a third of the cost in a board-and-care facility.
-It is critical to promote Supreme Court and other judicial nominees who have an understanding of and intention to uphold Olmstead, the ADA and other civil rights laws (abstract from: http://www.bazelon.org/newsroom/2009/Olmstead_Call-to-Action.htm).
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