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Disability Rights Group Protests At Ryan’s Office Over Medicaid
(The Hill)
May 3, 2011
Excerpt from Inclusion Daily
WASHINGTON, DC– [Excerpt] Several hundred demonstrators with disabilities gathered outside Rep. Paul Ryan’s (R-Wis.) office Tuesday to protest his budget’s proposed reduction in Medicaid funding.

Nearly 300 members of the national disability-rights group ADAPT — many in wheelchairs — initially lined up outside the Longworth building, and a dozen congregated inside the House Budget chairman’s second-floor office. By late afternoon, Capitol Police had arrested about 10.

Hundreds of demonstrators were lining the hall outside Ryan’s office when at least two dozen Capitol Police officers responded. The protesters were chanting, “We want Ryan. No more block grants.” About 10 were removed.

“With the proposal to block-grant Medicaid . . . the result is there is increasingly less money available to provide services,” Bruce Darling, an organizer for ADAPT, told The Hill. “We’re deeply concerned that home- and community-based services for people with disabilities and older Americans [will be] cut.”

Entire article:
Disability-rights group protests at Ryan’s office over Medicaid
http://www.InclusionDaily.com/news/2011/red/0506a.htm
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http://www.dimenet.com/hotnews/archive.php?mode=A&id=7363;&sort=D