…May 28, 2014, Not Dead Yet, the Center for Disability Rights and 11 other New York based disability organizations submitted public comments on the New York State Medicaid Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment Program (DSRIP). The comment letter called upon New York officials to eliminate one of the proposed projects, which the letter alleges would fund Medicaid providers to save money by steering people to choose death over living with disabil…
…ith more than 40 chapters throughout the United States – including four in New York State – ADAPT has most recently gained media attention this past summer for fighting to save Medicaid when over $800 billion Medicaid dollars were at risk in the many proposed bills to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Many disabled, elderly, and ill people rely on Medicaid to live, and especially to live in the community instead of being forced into nursing faciliti…
…Dead Yet launched a new messaging campaign which will be displayed on the New York City Times Square CBS Super Screen. The video message will be displayed once an hour, eighteen hours a day for three months. The Super Screen is 26 ft wide and 20 feet high. You can find it under the CBS logo on 42nd St., between 7th and 8th Avenue. This is – no pun intended – kind of a big deal. http://notdeadyet.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/ADAPT_NDY_03-4.mp4 A…
…(Originally Posted on Justice For All Blog on 8/14/09 – and sent to media outlets) August 14, 2009 Disability Community Denounces Rationing Argument in NYT From Not Dead Yet (8/14/09):…
…io Broadcast John Harrison: Hello and welcome to the radio program Brave New World. My name is John Harrison. In Aldous Huxley’s book of the same name, death is celebrated. Most of those who reach sixty and become economically “useless” are euthanized. Hearses are gaily colored, people are sent to die in comfortable primrose colored apartment blocks, which are alive and gay with synthetic melodies and where there’s a TV at the foot of every bed….
