Dennis Kucinich.

1. Do you support the passage and full implementation of the Medicaid Community Attendant Services and Supports Act, MiCASSA?

YES: Dennis Kucinich co-sponsored the bill.

2. Do you support the passage of legislation that will implement the concept of Money Follows the Person that is included in S.1394?

YES 

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3. Will you work with the states to assure they implement the Supreme Court's Olmstead decision so all people with disabilities, old and young, have the right to support services in the most integrated setting? 

YES. 3a. What specific actions would you take?

As President, Dennis Kucinich will provide technical support to the states implementing the Olmstead decision, ensuring that people with disabilities receive the best community integration possible.

4. Will you appoint a Secretary of Health and Human Services that will have a Community First philosophy and will review all Medicare and Medicaid policies with the intention of removing all policies that contribute to the institutional bias that exists in the current long term care system?

YES. Under a Kucinich Administration, everyone in America will be provided with comprehensive enhanced Medicare through a universal single payer health care system. This includes prescription drugs and mental health costs.

5. Will you appoint a high level task force to review the funding of long term services and supports and make recommendations on concrete ways to reverse the institutional funding bias?

YES 

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6. Will you support/develop long term service and support policies that enhance the consumer direction/self determination of personal attendant services by allowing persons to select, manage and dismiss attendants?

YES 

7. Will you support/develop long term service and support policies that will demedicalize personal attendant services by allowing physician/nurse assignment/delegation as well as tasks being defined as non medical?

YES 

8. Will you support/develop long term service and support policies that will develop wage and benefit incentives so that there is a large pool of attendants available to meet the growing personal attendant service needs in this country? Currently you can make more money working in a fast food restaurant than as an attendant.

YES. Incentives must be offered to ensure a sufficient long term care service that will meet the needs of our rapidly expanding senior population.

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9. Do you support the integration mandate in the Americans with Disabilities Act, ADA and believe this mandate is a federal civil right?

YES. 9a. If elected what actions will you take to protect this right?

As President, Kucinich will nominate equal rights-oriented judges who interpret the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) broadly, and he'll propose an amendment to the ADA to ensure the coverage that was intended prior to restrictive rulings by Republican-appointed judges. Kucinich will also increase resources to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Departments of Justice, Education and Health and Human Services civil rights divisions to enforce the right of people with disabilities.

10. Will you include people with disabilities, including ADAPT members, in the development of all policies that effect the community long term service and support system?

YES

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