Actor Noah Wyle Joins Scores Of ADAPT Activists In Protests, Arrest

Actor Noah Wyle Joins Scores Of ADAPT Activists In Protests, Arrest
(ADAPT)
April 24, 2012

WASHINGTON, DC– [Excerpt provided by Inclusion Daily Express] Noah Wyle the star of Falling Skies and more than 75 ADAPT activists were arrested today demanding Congress fully and wisely fund Medicaid. Most important to ADAPT is to prevent cuts, like in the Rep. Paul Ryan budget, to home and community options that will keep people from being forced into expensive institutions and nursing homes.

ADAPT is in Washington DC to reinforce the message from the September rally last year that “My Medicaid Matters.” The largest direct-action disability rights organization in the nation has proposed positive ways to make Medicaid more cost efficient and service effective; however ADAPT must defend the Medicaid program from broad and unwise cuts.

“Cutting or changing Medicaid without thoughtful reform has very real life or death consequences for people with disabilities and people who are aging who live on fixed incomes that are significantly below the poverty level,” said Marsha Katz of Montana ADAPT. “Washington should be putting our tax dollars into cost-saving community based services, not costly nursing homes and institutions. The time has come to get real about how we spend Medicaid dollars. Medicaid really does matter.”

Hundreds of ADAPT members lined up in color groups this morning and headed out at 9 a.m. Tim Sullivan, Noah Wyle and Mike Oxford lead the march up to the Canon House Office Building. ADAPT marched “loud and proud” up Capitol Hill and avoided the rain and wind that the group had faced yesterday when ADAPT held its Fun*Run for Disability Rights in Upper Senate Park.

Entire article:
Noah Wyle busted chanting “My Medicaid Matters!”
http://www.adapt.org/freeourpeople/2012/report03.php
Related:
Noah Wyle arrested at protest in Washington (Reuters)
http://tinyurl.com/ide04241201b
Capitol Police arrest 76 protestors, including actor Noah Wyle (The Hill)
http://tinyurl.com/ide04241201c
Disability Rights Group Protests Medicaid Cuts, More Than 100 Arrested (Democracy Now)
http://tinyurl.com/ide04241201d
HUD Secretary Donovan visits ADAPT to affirm commitment to affordable, accessible, integrated housing
http://www.dimenet.com/hotnews/archive.php?mode=A&id=7496;&sort=D

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