Advocates for Minnesotans with disabilities want Governor Mark Dayton to call a special session or otherwise intervene, so there’s not a seven-percent funding cut for home- and community-based services. Doctor Sheryl Grassie says otherwise “we’re not gonna have services, adequate services, for people in outstate Minnesota.”
The group also says the state should not be required to bulk-purchase incontinence products for Medicaid patients. Grassie warns if that directive stays in place, “People who need incontinence products are so limited that they can’t get out, and so they end up losing their ability to really be part of the community.”
The measures that disability advocates want were part of a major budget bill the legislature passed but Governor Dayton vetoed it over other concerns.