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By Jennifer Kye, Laval Miller-Wilson, Diane Menio, Peri Jude Radecic and Antoinette Kraus

“For many low-income seniors and adults with disabilities in our state, access to home and community-based long-term care may soon be in jeopardy.

“Pennsylvania is planning to make private insurance companies the gatekeepers for these services, shifting the state’s Medicaid-funded long-term services and supports system to a managed care model.

“Unfortunately, safeguards for consumers are not assured.”

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