RALEIGH, N.C. — Valerie Harper of Wilson knows the budget problems facing North Carolina’s Medicaid office. But the 50-year-old former day care worker with cerebral palsy can’t understand why state regulators would want to reduce the personal care services that bring a woman to her house six times a week to help her stay bathed and fed, and help her into her Sunday best so Harper’s sister can drive her to church.
NC Medicaid program trying to curb home services – AP
February 5, 2010