Disability rights and aging organizations across the country are calling on the US Congress to give people with disabilities a choice of staying at home or living in a nursing home.

On Tuesday, members of the Missoula Coalition for Disability Rights took its fight back to Senator Max Baucus' Missoula office for a sit-in.     

"We really want to stay in our homes, nursing homes is not an option," one protester said.

Protestors hope to grab the public's attention, demanding an end to what they say is an institutional bias in the nation's health care policy.     

 "This is a topic that touches everybody. Everybody is either, A. going to get older or B. experience a disability or C. experience both," protestor Travis Hoffman said.

"What better place than his office to get people to wake up," another protestor said.

Members chanted "our homes, not nursing homes," promising they won't leave Baucus' office until their demands are met.

"Living in my home is freedom, its independence and independence is my choice, and that's why nursing homes are not a choice for me. It takes away my independence and I've had to fight for my independence for a long time," one person said.     

This isn't the first time protestors have met on this topic. They say Senator Baucus is listening but has still not met their demands.

On July 2, the Montana disability and aging communities converged on all seven of Baucus' state offices, asking him to include long term services and supports in health care reform and eliminate the institutional bias in Medicaid.  But when they received no verbal response, they gathered back together Tuesday.     

"People with long term care needs want to stay in their homes and communities, and with the passage of a comprehensive health care reform bill, they can. Together with his colleagues in Congress and

President Obama, Senator Baucus is developing provisions that will make community based services available to more people, without asking them to deplete their savings first. He is on the same page with Montanans in believing that every one of us should have quality affordable health care," Baucus' spokesman Ty Matsdorf said in a statement.