National Forum on Equality,
Opportunity, and Access

Promises Made

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton

Employment

• Reinstate Bill Clinton’s executive order that committed the Federal government to hiring 100,000 people with disabilities
• Hire qualified people with disabilities to fill leadership roles in the Administration
• Double the investment in work-enabling technologies by providing low interest loans for purchases
• Provide real-time support for employers so they can make the accommodations necessary for employees to do their jobs
• Conduct a review to determine where disincentives to work still exist in Federal benefit programs and where we can and must do better
• Propose and work to pass $1,000 per worker tax credit to offset work and transportation expenses for disabled workers

Health Care

• Eliminate Medicare eligibility time limit on number of years an individual can work
• Help working individuals with disabilities buy into Medicaid
• Health care plan will cover every American (never deny coverage because of pre-existing conditions or risk factors) and provide affordable choices to those who have no coverage or are dissatisfied with their current coverage
• Health care plan will let you keep your existing coverage if you are satisfied with it
• “No more discrimination.  Period.  Cover everybody.  Cover pre-existing conditions.  No questions asked.”
• Under health care plan, everyone will have access to the same choices members of Congress have now

Long-Term Services and Supports

• Ask the Office of Civil Rights to enforce the Olmstead decision
• Vigorously enforce the Community Choices Act

ADA

• Will sign the ADA Restoration Act into law as President

Senator John McCain

Veterans

• Give care for wounded veterans the highest priority in his administration