No satellite.  No landline phone lines.  1 cell carrier that works in a 12 square foot roaming patch in the yard.  This is what RURAL looks like.

$3500/mo for enough cellphones to cover each worker and child.  $50k per copper line to the house and multiple lines needed for IVR.  This is not financially feasible.

What gives the government the right to know where my children are anyway?  How is it legal to require this information to receive services they’re eligible for due to their medical and developmental disabilities?  Olmstead says they must receive them, 4th amendment protects from unreasonable search and seizure.  Even if it says they’re tracking the attendant, if the attendant is with the consumer then they’re tracking the consumer.  What gives the government that right?

Our PCAs who have been with us for many years have given notice because we cannot make EVV work, in spite of trying everything suggested by CSB, MCO care Coordinator, SFs, PPL, CDCN.  We are on our own very soon.

Less than a year and a half was given to transition.  No real plan to make it work.  We’re just stuck.  We can choose to sell or give up our home and move to a city where EVV works or give up the PCAs and do what we can on our own for our kids.  We won’t let you institutionalize them.  We (and they) have worked to hard to avoid that.

Shame on you.