Ind. wait list for Medicaid waivers tops 10 years, Associated Press, August 14, 2010, Chicago Tribune: “Some Indiana residents with developmental disabilities are waiting more than a decade to receive Medicaid waivers even though the state has more than tripled the number of people approved for such aid since 2001. State officials acknowledge a long wait for the more than 21,000 people on the waiting list for the waiver but say more than 4,600 are receiving other waiver services while they wait. ‘The reason some have to wait so long is that we want to make sure the most needy get the waiver the quickest,’ said Marcus Barlow, spokesman for the Family and Social Services Administration. ‘That forces others on the waiting list to wait longer for services…'”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty