Creating Effective Public and Private Disability Policy: Thinking Outside the Box

**Pre-registration for this event is closed. Limited on-site registration might be available on a first-come, first-served basis.**

This workshop explores research and practice in public and private disability programs to learn how both sectors can work better for persons with disabilities.

AGENDA

12:30pm Lunch

1:00pm Welcome

• Margaret Simms, President of NASI
• Winthrop Cashdollar, America's Health Insurance Plans

1:10pm Opening Challenge: Laurel Beedon, NASI's Senior Fellow

• How are private and public disability insurance (DI) working together to the benefit of people with disabilities?
• Are there particularly successful or challenging experiences from which both sectors can learn?
• Is system integration as efficient as it should/can be?
• What can private DI do that public DI can't and vice versa?
• What can private DI insurers do to help the public DI program and the beneficiaries it serves?
• Does Canada have different successes or challenges than the U.S.?

1:15pm Presenters
Presenters bring experience from private insurance, public programs, clinical work and research.

• Ken Mitchell, Unum
• James Prochaska, University of Rhode Island
• Michael Sullivan, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
• Richard Balkus, Social Security Administration

2:15pm Q & A

2:30pm Break

2:45pm Discussion, launched by NASI's Disability Policy Advisory Group

• Dorothy Watson, Consultant
• David Wittenburg, Mathematica
• Tony Young, NISH

3:00pm Open Discussion, all attendees

4:00pm Adjourn
Funded by America's Health Insurance Plans, UNUM, and the Ford Foundation.