Troy Anderson. Contra Costa Times

Without program, many would end up in nursing facilities or dying early By Troy 
Hundreds of thousands of elderly and disabled Californians would lose vital home care and end up in nursing homes under a budget proposal from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, according to a new UCLA study. The governor’s proposed cuts to the $5.5 billion In-Home Supportive Services program would turn back the clock on three decades of how society cares for the elderly and disabled, the analysis by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research said. The governor has proposed cutting about $950 million in state funding for the program, but the state also faces the potential loss of up to $2.5 billion in federal matching funds.
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