Jerry Brown vetoes bill to help elderly, disabled

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Source: San Francisco Chronicle

Sacramento -- Time is running out for the tens of thousands of frail, elderly and disabled Californians who currently depend on centers around the state for medical care and other support, after Gov. Jerry Brown refused to support a smaller incarnation of the decades-old program.

Brown vetoed a bill Monday that would have offered an alternative to Adult Day Health Care, which was eliminated under the budget signed last month. Now, funding for the approximately 300 existing centers that offer 37,000 adults medical care, physical therapy, exercise, counseling, socialization and other support will be cut off on Dec. 1.

"Providers, patients and families are scared and angry, and they feel abandoned and marginalized," said Lydia Missaelides, executive director of the California Association for Adult Day Services, who noted that the community-based model that defines Adult Day Health Care is exactly what the federal health care reform envisions.

The measure Brown vetoed would have replaced the $169 million Adult Day Health Care program with an $85 million alternative that served only the neediest patients. The bill was authored by Assemblyman Bob Blumenfield, D-Woodland Hills (Los Angeles County).

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/07/26/BAF01KE1VF.DTL

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1. Brown is a very competent guy... I assume he knows what he's doing here. nt

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2. +1

Brown was handed the keys to a state in crisis. I can't say I would trust anyone more to take it from here.

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3. Shoving old folks who

require Day Care under the bus is just not my idea of Jerry Brown....

Everyone in CA better hope they're f*cking rich when they get old!!!

Wonder if he'll allow Assisted Suicide for those who are stuck 24/7 with no one.