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The concern over the governors statement-

TENNESSEE NOT ONLY CUTS TENNCARE CARE, BUT KICKS OUT PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES.

 By Gene Gantt

"When asked directly by Randy Alexander what his plans were in relation to these specific cuts Governor Bredesen replied, I'm not going to cut their services I'm just going to put then in the nursing home." 

Is worse than can be imagined. If he plans to put vent dependent individuals in a nursing home then it will be in a nursing home in another state. Last year more than 30 Tennesseans were sent to nursing homes in Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina or Ohio. In Tennessee there are no nursing homes who will provide chronic ventilator care! The state doesn't have a program for this level of care.

So, worse than sending them to prison is sending them to a leper colony in another state. We are diligently working to bring some of them home. Today one came home from Kentucky, next week I hope to get another home from Ohio. 

It is simply inhumane.

Gene Gantt CEO
Respiratory Support Services
Phone 931-823-3702
Fax 931-823-3712
gene@respiratorysupport.com
www.respiratorysupport.com

Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen:
Bigotry or Ignorance?

Phil Bredesen “I’m not going to cut their services I’m just going to put then in the nursing home.”

- Phil Bredesen

The Olmstead decision interpreted Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and its implementing regulation, requiring States to administer their services, programs, and activities "in the most integrated setting appropriate to the needs of qualified individuals with disabilities." 

“I care about them, I’m not cutting their services I’m going to provide their services in a nursing home.”

- Phil Bredesen

Phil Bredesen

Whether Phil Bredesen knows it or not, these are our basic civil rights. Allowing Tennessee to take about a hundred of us from our homes and "serve" us in a nursing home is discrimination. It is cheaper for Tennessee to stop building ramps, not provide interpreters, kick us out and hide us away.

Phil Bredesen “…the state cannot afford to pay for the services of these one hundred people.” 

- Phil Bredesen

What citizens will be next to find their civil rights an easy cut for Bredesen? Discrimination, ignorance and bigotry hurt us all.

Phil Bredesen 2004 and George Wallace 1964.

Contact the Governor Today:

Governor Bredesen
Governor's Office
Tennessee State Capitol
Nashville, TN 37243-0001

Phone: 615.741.2001
Fax: 615.532.9711
Email: phil.bredesen@state.tn.us

 

MCIL Journal Index 2005

Follow the TennCare Sit-in

Date Name
12/31/2005 MCIL and System Advocacy in 2005
12/19/2005 Breaking TennCare to Fix It.
12/7/2005 Tennessee Citizens Against AIDS Demands Full Funding of Global AIDS Fund.
11/24/2005 Bredespin Administration denies withholding information.
11/17/2005 My First National ADAPT ACTION! By Louis Patrick.
11/4/2005 MCIL's Annual Holiday Open House and Silent Auction.
10/31/2005 Women and Seniors: Have You Taken Lipitor?
10/28/2005 Salt Lake City to get accessible taxicabs.
10/22/2005 MCIL: 20 years of kicking ass.
10/7/2005 Letter to Bredesen Shows Disenrollment Unnecessary.
9/29/2005 How Gonzales v. Oregon impacts people with disabilities.
9/27/2005 "Hey Bredesen We Want Medicine," Greets Tennessee Governor at $1000 a Plate Fund Raiser.
9/21/2005 ADAPT Accentuates the Weeks Message, Makes Demands on the NGA.
9/20/2005 The Disability Community will not be overlooked, or left behind.
9/19/2005 Angry Activists Arrested on Capitol Hill.
9/18/2005 Don't Target People with Disabilities.
8/22/2005 Safety Net is a Sham.
8/15/2005 Bredespin: Saving TennCare.
8/2/2005 Bredespin.
7/30/2005 Tennessee Needs Money Follows the Person.
7/26/2005 MCIL Timeline of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
7/23/2005 Six lies of Governor Bredesen, Part Two.
7/22/2005 Six lies of Governor Bredesen, Part One.
7/17/2005 Bredesen’s Plan Costly to Tennessee.
7/8/2005 Bredesen’s Drug Cap Violates the ADA.
7/4/2005 An Authentic American Demonstration.
6/21/2005 Activists Takeover Gov. Bredesen's Office.
6/18/2005 Concern over the governors statement.
6/16/2005 Governor Bredesen Issues Life Sentences to Vent Users.
6/8/2005 SCLC joins the struggle to secure TennCare.
5/25/2005 Center City Commission Can't Commit to Civil Rights.
5/18/2005 City's New Gazebo: A Symbol of Segregation.
5/15/2005 Section 8 Voucher Proposal Closes the Door on People with Disabilities.
5/2/2005 MEMPHIS - Rally in Support of TennCare.
4/25/2005 ADAPT Challenges Democrats to End Medicaid Institutional Bias.
4/19/2005 Changes coming to your Center for Independent Living?.
4/11/2005 Spring Spaghetti Supper Supreme.
4/5/2005 2ND Annual Free Yo Momma Day!
3/28/2005 ADAPT takes over Charlotte Avenue in downtown Nashville.
3/23/2005 Facts About Long Term Care in Tennessee
3/19/2005 USDOJ: Memphis Builders and Designers Settle Discrimination Lawsuit.
3/13/2005 State Policy Unjustly Institutionalizes Thousands
3/11/2005 The Money Follows the Person bill has been introduced by Senator Tom Harkin
3/2/2005 Anatomy of an ADAPT Action By Tim Wheat
3/1/2005 NOTICE TO POTENTIAL AGGRIEVED PERSONS
2/21/2005 YOUR VOICE IS IMPORTANT!
2/20/2005 Medicaid: A Time to Act by Mike Leavitt, Secretary of HHS
2/12/2005 Home is Where the Heart Is!
2/8/2005 Opposition to MiCASSA
1/31/2005 TENNCARE CHANGES
1/22/2005 Your State: Institutional versus Community expenditures.
1/11/2005 Call the Governor Today!
1/5/2005 Not Dead Yet Challenges Movie Critics, Eastwood

 

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