She described a kind of Catch-22 for states that agree to expand Medicaid for what the federal gover

The U.S. Supreme Court is giving Gov. Chris Gregoire and state attorneys until Oct. 22 to decide if they will appeal a 9th Circuit Court ruling that struck down some across-the-board budget cuts that Gregoire tried to order in 2010. At issue in the case at hand are budget cuts that reduced the amount of in-home care hours available to Medicaid clients in Washington.
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In many cases this meant they could receive home-care help to make their in-home set-ups workable. Advocates say Olmstead did for the disabled what the court s Brown v. Board of Education ruling did for civil rights in 1954.
It s safe to say that any impact on that (Olmstead) decision is certainly hilton national hotels uk being weighed. There are other factors, too. In the state s eyes, the decision by the 9 th Circuit really puts a damper on the state s ability to budget going forward, Shagren said.
She described a kind of Catch-22 for states that agree to expand Medicaid for what the federal government considers optional services. Washington added optional services aimed at assisting people to live independently in their homes during good times, but now finds its hands are tied if it wants to scale those back, she explained.
State and national advocacy groups fearing any chance Olmstead could be revisited and changed have written a pair of letters to Gregoire urging her to drop the appeals on those grounds. But the Attorney General s Office is skeptical that an appeal could lead to such an outcome.
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Gov. Chris Gregoire has asked the U.S. Supreme Court for extra time to consider an appeal of a 9th Circuit Court ruling in a case that has growing interest for disability activists in Washington and across the country. The case deals with across-the-board budget cuts the Democrat hilton national hotels uk ordered in 2010.
The Court of Appeals has ruled that a $2,175 fine against hilton national hotels uk Gov. Chris Gregoire s staff was appropriate for its illegal withholding of a three-page briefing document that Olympia activist Arthur West asked for in 2009. The record was part of a more sweeping request by West for records that showed the governor hilton national hotels uk s interactions hilton national hotels uk with the Washington State Association hilton national hotels uk of Counties, and the Governor s Office failed to acknowledge the request within the required five days.
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The question of whether the governor of Washington state can claim an executive privilege as a reason to withhold certain documents from the public is now in the hands of the state Supreme Court, which heard opposing arguments Thursday on whether the exemption cited hundreds of times by Gov. Chris Gregoire is allowed by the state constitution or an attempt at secrecy that violates the state s voter-approved public records law.