Updates from ADAPTers In the Field:
DePearle: Long Term Services and Supports NOT to be Included in Health Care Reform
Received 4/27/09 12:20 pm :
500 ADAPT activists from throughout the US including 50 Texans are lined up outside the Whitehouse calling for President Obama to include the Community Choice Act and long term services and supports in his health care reform proposals.
10 ADAPT activists are now meeting with Obama Health Care Czar Nancy Ann DeParle.
Updates to come!
Then at 1:10 pm:
100 people are chained to the White House fence after President Obama's Health Care Czar Nancy Ann DeParle stated with no reservation that long term services and supports WILL NOT be in health care reform. She told 10 ADAPT activists that they can't do it in the timeframe set and that we would have to live with the institutional bias.
Arrests are imminent!
First-hand accounts reported to the JFA Moderator at 2:45 pm:
Approximately 100 ADAPT activists were arrested today after being fired up by a disappointing meeting with White House officials. At the meeting with the ADAPT activists were Jeff Crowley, Valerie Jarrett, Nancy DeParle and Henry Claypoole (his first day on the job). Their message was consistent "CCA will not be included in this year's Health Care Reform" and "You'll have to live with the institutional bias." Tell that to those who are dying in institutions! ADAPT activists give Obama a "D" in disability issues for his first 100 days for "Dissing the Disability Community" like this.
For ABC coverage of the action see
Police Arresting Angry Members of the Disabled Community Who Are Picketing White House
by Jake Tapper and Sunlen Miller
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/04/police-arrestin.html
Photos Below Taken outside the White House by Sarah Peterson, JFA Moderator (4/27/09):
Teddy Fitzmurice Demands Respect from the Administration outside the White House on Monday.
ADAPTers Brave the Heat to demand Choice from White House Officials.
Arrests, tickets and fines didn't dampen the energy of the ADAPTERS as the lined up after the action.
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