For the fourth time in a year, lawmakers voted to keep alive a program that moves people with disabilities from institutions into the community, but its long-term fate remains in jeopardy.  The Medicaid program provides funding to states to cover employment supports, housing and other services so that people with disabilities can transition from nursing homes and other institutional facilities to homes in the community. It officially expired in 2016 and has been in limbo ever since as Congress has repeatedly passed short-term extensions.

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