I wonder how the legislative authority within the Division of Health Care Financing and Policy can even imagine cutting the wages of the PCA’s for the disabled. The disabled have the right to the time and expertise of these workers. The PCA’s have the right and responsibility to give the best care possible.
A wage reduction in these financial times will mean that these people
will not only be less able to complete good quality care, but the time
limitations and constraints will only decrease that level of quality
care and cause potential injury and illness, which will cost the state
in hospitalizations and emergency calls utilizing emergency personnel
and tying up an already crowded and overburdened hospital system.
Decreasing care will increase the already strained community systems.
Perhaps the cuts should be from the administrators suggesting the cuts;
not to the under privileged.
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