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Image by: Kati Garner

Less than 1,000 sick and disabled people and those who take care of them in-home rallied on the south lawn of the Capitol building today. Image by: Kati Garner

The in-home care workers rally was organized by Labor unions representing the health workers.

Their goal today? To deliver 75,000 signed petitions to Governor Jerry Brown.

And to get their message out that Home Care saves money and lives. During his budget revision last month, the governor announced that the state’s budget deficit is roughly $16 billion, greater than previously thought. Brown has proposed cuts to a multitude of social services, including several state-funded health care programs like Healthy Families, which provides medical care to uninsured children. Image by: Kati Garner Image by: Kati Garner Image by: Kati Garner

Arguments in favor of keeping things as they are is that it actually costs less taking care of a sick or person with a disability in-home rather than in an institution.

According to Scott Mann, a spokesman for Service Employees International Union, Gov. Jerry Brown’s budget proposal would cut the workers’ hours by 7 percent, eliminate domestic services. Cutting at-home care could result in more hospitalizations and nursing home admissions. Home Care workers have until June 15 to make sure their language is passed, either as a stand-alone bill (SB 1503) or included in the state budget. Image by: Kati Garner

Mission accomplished - 75,000 signed petitions were delivered to the office of Gov. Jerry Brown today.

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Kati Garner

June 8, 2012 | 8:04 AM

The Petition can be signed by you.........copy/paste this link:
http://letsgethealthyathome.org/add-your-voice/

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chal70

June 9, 2012 | 10:42 AM

Second piece of media on this event referring to my fellow IHSS consumers as "sick, disabled". More offensive to me as a consumer advocate is the collective willingness of the three homecare unions to abandon core principles of consumer empowerment and representation inherent in our state's progressive homecare delivery system. Twenty years of working in coalition with labor has brought us to a point where many feel betrayed and bypassed in the process of the unions ensuring their position and control. The proposed shift to a for-profit, managed care homecare model is potentially setting our consumer-driven system back 40 years--to a time when we were all viewed as "patients" (or "sick") and those who provided our care supposedly REALLY knew what was best for us.

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nancybk

June 10, 2012 | 11:12 PM

"The proposed shift to a for-profit, managed care homecare model is potentially setting our consumer-driven system back 40 years--to a time when we were all viewed as "patients" (or "sick") and those who provided our care supposedly REALLY knew what was best for us."

AMEN TO THAT CHAL70! SO Deeply offensive. Capitalizing on stereotypes of us as incompetent "cripples." Ed Roberts would hate this!

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nancybk

June 9, 2012 | 11:48 PM

Refering to us as "sick and disabled" makes it so easy to rob us of our hard won civil rights. If we are sick of anything it is being treated like widgets in someone's business plan!

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Kati Garner

June 10, 2012 | 12:36 PM

Forgive me for not using the right terms. I am a photographer, not so much a writer and, 98% of the time, not familiar with or even heard of groups involved in the photos I shoot. I scramble to write something to accompany my photos so there is info to explain what the photos are 'saying'.

If what I wrote was wrong, I apologize. I chose to go to the rally to help get your challenging situation "out there" in the public's eye. I am a retired photographer, a community contributor for SacPress. I don't get paid. I pay for parking out of my own pocket. I don't always have a writer available to accompany me.

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audrey

June 14, 2012 | 8:46 PM

There was another petition sent to Governor Jerry Brown bill author of SB 208 Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg and key legislator’s State Assembly Speaker John A. Parez Majority Leader Ellen M. Corbett that stated their opposition to being consigned to Coordinated Care which is merely a euphemism for managed care. SB 208 has its origins from the Patients Affordable Care Act. California was one of 15 states that were slated to receive Federal funding to enlist for profit managed care companies to assume complete medical psychological social and home care of 1.9 million of California's most vulnerable population. The state Federal government and unions would have Californians people with disabilities and senior citizens believe that coordinating care of this population would give them better access to care and save billions of dollars. It is no accident however that the unions are involved because the unions have united with managed care to push their mutual agendas, that is charging both the state and federal government for patients they will neither been seen or give them substandard care; while the unions lie to their members about increasing wages then fleece them out of hard earned money to fill their coffers so they can buy politicians like President Obama, California Governor Jerry Brown and the above mentioned legislators to do their bidding.

Though the 2,016 petition numbers pale by comparison to the union organization financial means to elicit 75,000 signatures, we are certain that there are many more people who if they knew what the state and federal were about to do would not condone what is about to happen to them or their family members who are seniors or people with disabilities.

Please see my press release to Governor Brown's proposal to put people with disabilities and senior citizen who have medi-cal medicare into managed care Senior Citizens People with Disabilities and Concerned Californians fight against Managed Care www.pressking.com http://www.pressking.com/press-releases/Senior-Citizens-People-with-Disabilities-and-Concerned-Californians-fight-against-Managed-Care-017944 and do a story on this as well.

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nancybk

June 10, 2012 | 10:57 PM

Oh Dear Kati you are totally forgiven. Forgive me for venting at you the rage people with disabilities feel by having to fight so hard to be treated as autonomyous whole people. you seem like a dear lady! you meant well. Now you have a new perspective! ;-)Nancybk

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Sherrie Tyler