Alison Barkoff, Director of the Hirsh Health Law & Policy Program, has been quoted in recent articles published by Mother Jones, STAT News, and Disability Scoop.
In the Mother Jones article, Home Care Wasn’t Ready for the Climate Crisis—Even Before Trump’s Cuts, Barkoff said, “We are not very good at the state emergency planning level, including around climate and thinking about planning for disabled people of all ages."
In the STAT News article, Trump administration says home care fraud is ‘rampant.’ What do the data show? Barkoff said, “This is being painted with a really broad brush. I don’t think anyone thinks no fraud exists in HCBS. Fraud exists in every single health care program, all types of services. But because HCBS has grown, it must be filled with fraud? It’s impossible to have guardrails for services out in the community versus an institution?”
In the Disability Scoop article, Nation’s Disability Services System Faces ‘Unprecedented’ Threats, Barkoff said “The administration’s blunt enforcement approach — like freezing and withholding funds to programs instead of working with states to identify and prosecute individuals committing fraud — will hurt the very people that CMS is claiming that it is protecting.”