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From our ongoing advocacy work and yearly events to the purchase of our new building, 2016 has been a huge year for CTD! Check out the highlights of our year in review. Formerly a guitar store, our sweet new digs inspired the music theme of this year's report.
2. Under Pressure from CTD, therapy providers, advocates, & parents, State leadership begins to change its tune on cuts to Medicaid therapies for children.
Counter-clockwise from left: Brianna Dupuie, who family is at the forefront of efforts to restore cuts to Medicaid therapies. September press conference on Medicaid rate cuts. Tom Kowalski of the Texas Healthcare and Bioscience Institute, Kent Hance of We Work for Health Texas, and Dennis Borel visit Sen. Ted Cruz's offie in Washington DC (photo by We Work for Health Texas).
In 2016, several major new stories broke that revealed a bleak picture for children with disabilities in Texas, including devastating healthcare cuts. CTD took action on all fronts:
- While in Washington DC to discuss pharmaceutical policy with the Texas delegation, CTD's Dennis Borel took the opportunity to raise the issue of the cuts. It struck a cord with the senators and congressmen, and we asked them to intervene.
- We featured a family actively working to counteract these cuts in our June/ July newsletter, with an accompanying action alert.
- We added our voices to a packed press conference at the State Capitol in September.
- Through regular posts on social media, we kept our membership updated on developments- and you responded! In 2016, our posts about cuts to Medicaid therapies received more attention than any other issue or news development.
We are hopeful that the public's rapt attention will help parents and advocates successfully pressure key decision makers to restore funding for Medicaid therapies in early 2017. Notably, House Speaker Joe Straus has indicated his intention to do so.
