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This bill, the Better Care Better Jobs Act, aims to expand access to home and community-based services (HCBS) under Medicaid. The key provisions of this bill are: 1. It establishes an HCBS infrastructure improvement planning grant program to help states develop plans to expand HCBS access and strengthen the direct care workforce. 2. It creates an HCBS Infrastructure Improvement Program that provides an enhanced federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP) to "HCBS program improvement states" that meet certain requirements, such as maintaining existing HCBS coverage, expanding HCBS access, and strengthening the direct care workforce. 3. It requires the development and use of core and supplemental HCBS quality measures by state Medicaid programs, with increased federal matching funds for adopting and reporting on these measures. 4. It makes permanent the state option to extend Medicaid spousal impoverishment protections to HCBS recipients. 5. It permanently extends the Money Follows the Person Rebalancing demonstration program, which helps transitions individuals from institutional to community-based settings. The overall goal of the bill is to expand access to HCBS, strengthen the direct care workforce, and improve the quality of HCBS provided through the Medicaid program.

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https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/2210/all-info