Kenneth Bence

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Health Chatter · Disabilities Research & Policy with Kenneth Bence · 19 Jun 2026 podcast

And so I've enjoyed that part of what I do.

Well, that's a really good question because unfortunately, this is a chronically underfunded sector under our healthcare system.

And so many of the issues that we are advocating for today

would have been, you know, could have played the same script 10, 15, 20 years ago.

And so there's been some constancy and those kinds of things.

In the home and community-based sector where we face, you know,

So as I said before, Armour was founded in 1970 and that was when the first movement to release people from the large state institutions and allow more community integration and allow people to live in smaller settings and be integrated in their communities.

So home and community-based services then emerged out of that.

And it was in 1981 when the federal government allowed

Medicaid waivers to support people living in more independent or home and community based settings.

So supporting these people with disabilities comes through Medicaid funding.

So it's a shared federal and state partnership through the state's Medicaid program.

Every state does it differently because every state has a unique Medicaid program.

And, um,

And so the state's investments have to go through the legislature, the legislative process, and be appropriated.

Because, you know, it's always, it competes with everything else that the state has to spend money on.

It's been a chronically underfunded sector, which has led to probably the most constant issue is around workforce.

So investment is...

In my opinion, not sufficient to where it should be, does not allow providers to pay their staff or support either supporting people in group homes or other residential settings or through supportive services and a person's own home.

So it's a very low, low confidence, low leave situation.

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