The CSAC Health and Human Services Policy Committee met this week
to discuss a number of important issues. The In-Home Supportive
Services cost shift and the recently-announced plan to spare
counties from the worst of those costs for two years was on top
of the agenda. CSAC led a coalition of County affiliates and
partners to negotiate an alternative solution that would reduce
the impact to counties and allow for long-term stability to
County budgets and to IHSS and other programs funded by the 1991
Realignment.
The Committee also got an update on the Federal effort to repeal
and replace the Affordable Care Act and debated proposed platform
language related to transparency in instances where there is a
child death or near-death within the Child Welfare Services
system. The committee did not adopt new platform language on this
issue. Background on these and other issues is included in the
Health and Human Services Policy Committee meeting packet.
