

AHCA Sends Us Back
I graduated college in 1990. The ADA had just been passed. There was no funding for home care. There was no accessible public transportation. I lived with my dad who took care of me and worked from home as a telemarketer, which I hated. I volunteered on a committee that wrote a Medicaid waiver to keep people like me out of nursing homes and fund home care. Pennsylvania was the second state in the nation to get a waiver. That was 25 years ago. In 1997, I became self-employed a