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Name: Anonymous on Sep 7, 2007Comments: Please, stop cutting back on Medicaid Waiver and Support Coordinators as well. Our children are the most vulnerable and need this service to keep alive and well.Flag
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Name: William West on Sep 7, 2007Comments: These people are the ones that need our help the most. Please find a way not to cut this funding. To not help them now will only cost more in the future. William WestFlag
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Name: Anonymous on Sep 7, 2007Comments: Please do not eliminate independent support coordination from the waiver, also do not allow for any changes in the wording of support coordination.Flag
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Name: Linda Spence on Sep 7, 2007Comments: Please do not take away more benefits from my son. My son is autistic and is able to live in his own home with the assistance of a In Home support, SLC and NRSS services. With taking away the NRSS service and reducing SLC has greatly reduce his chances of staying in his own home which in turn give me some peace and free of phycial harm that he usually does on me. He is not able to be in group home because of his behavior. So please do not take more away. Do not take our coordinators away as they are our life line and advocate. Linda SpenceFlag
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Name: Linda Keene on Sep 7, 2007Comments: I'm a provider of individuals with developmental disabilities. I feel with anymore reduction of services or taking away their support coordinator is leaving very negative outlook on the state as this is abandoment of our individuals that need our help. Please do not leave them defenseless.Flag
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Name: Bonnie Walker on Sep 7, 2007Comments: Is the State prepared to "warehouse" these children & adults because the families & caregivers won't be able to afford the necessary care for them What is that cost VS the cost of services being cutFlag
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Name: Robert Turner on Sep 7, 2007Comments: It is imparitive that these special people be protected from loosing the few things they have in life to look forward to. Reductions in services will lead to institutionalizing many of them and that is not much of a life. Please help them as they can not help themselves.Flag
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Name: Peggy Pulling on Sep 7, 2007Comments: What kind of society do we live in that when money is scarce you take from the disabled while the rich has multiple homes and such excess. This is a civilization waiting to fall. DO NOT TAKE FROM THE DISABLED, IT IS WRONG!!!!!Flag
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Name: Linda Hubner on Sep 7, 2007Comments: Budget cuts should not be on the backs of the innocent, including those with disabilities. If all the Florida legislators (including the Governor) and directors of the Agency for Persons with disabilities took a 20% cut in salary there would be plenty of money for all and the legislators could resume calling themselves "public servants."Flag
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Name: Sally Holloway on Sep 7, 2007Comments: The solution is not deleting current programs. Financial goals can be reached by making Support Coordinators, Providers, and clients accountable. We need rules and consequences for everyone.Flag
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Name: Becca Hanson on Sep 7, 2007Comments: very sad day when i was told my sister was no longer qualified for the medical care she so despertley needs!! i hope for your sake mr. crist that you or your family NEVER needs this service because all they do is take everything away!!!!!Flag
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Name: Ubaldo ALvarez on Sep 7, 2007Comments: It should embarrass you Florida legislators to have let APD mismanage funds for such a long time and now that you became aware of it you do what's easiest: cut funding for the developmentally disabled. You all should be ashamed of yourselves.Flag
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Name: Jesse Kern on Sep 7, 2007Comments: Would you even consider taking an action, that would place any individuals with severe and complex developmental disibilities in dangerous and even crisis situations. I surely hope not. Jesse Kern, Secretary Central Florida Jobs Committee Saint Petersburg, FloridaFlag
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Name: Sandra LaCour on Sep 7, 2007Comments: There are other cuts that could be made in the state of Florida without cutting the necessary services of the most helpless of our citizens. Social services should be prioritized with the most needy receiving first consideration.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Sep 7, 2007Comments: Please protect the communities most vulnerable individuals with developmental disabilities from further budget cuts.Flag
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Name: Cynthia Hall on Sep 7, 2007Comments: These cuts are disgraceful. How about addressing the fraud problems that waste money rather than eliminating services from the disabled Proper oversight and management would have avoided this problem in the first place. Now, those with no voice are being denied care because of this mismanagement. Each member of the legislature should spend a full day in a rehab center or make housecalls for a day to meet these people and see who their budget cuts affect. These people and their families didn't ask for their conditions and shouldn't be penalized.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Sep 7, 2007Comments: Weve got to set our priorities right. And this is not the way to do it! How can we, the richest and most powerful nation in the world weve gone to the moon keep on treating the most vulnerable with contempt and spite It is simply disgusting. Is it time for a regime changeFlag
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Name: Lynn James on Sep 7, 2007Comments: I would like to see all waiver services funded under the ADA rehab Act and stop the insane chaos wielded by AHCA and APD under "medical necessity". This is the proper place for home and community based services for the most part as they ARE necessary for people with developental challenges to avoid institutions even if they are not medically necessary as defined by these agencies on a day to day or year to year basis by circumstances and factors including anything but what is best for this population.Flag
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Name: Cynthia Szuka on Sep 7, 2007Comments: this is detrimental to many individuals with disabilities health and life!Flag
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Name: Lisa Blackburn on Sep 7, 2007Comments: Is it ethical, moral or conscionable to remove funding that is the ONLY source for living. It is nothing less than "pulling the plug" on human lives. Someone is playing God on top of an anthill and deciding who's lives are the most important. It sadden me about our legislators.Flag