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After 11 years, Georgia Health News joined KFF Health News. Together we are telling the important health care stories about Georgia from across the state. Learn more from Andy Miller.

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Georgia Said It Would Fix Care for the Disabled Years Ago. It’s Still Not Done.

In recent decades, the Justice Department has sued several states for unnecessarily confining people with disabilities in places such as state psychiatric hospitals, nursing homes and segregated workspaces. Such treatment violates a key part of the Americans With Disabilities Act — as affirmed in the 1999 Olmstead decision from the Supreme Court: that people with…