Memorandum 
Date: October 16, 1993 
To: Senator Dole 
From: Alec Vachon
Re: FYI/American Public Health Association (APHA) Presentation 
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On Tuesday, October 25, 1993, I will be presenting a paper to the annual meeting of APHA in San Francisco on the disability income program in Athens in 5th B.C. In many ways, this ancient program encountered many of the same problems as our modern SSI and SSDI programs. Written with a colleague at Princeton, this paper is a work of original scholarship; an abstract of the paper is attached.

Incidentally, I become Chairman of the section on disability within APHA this year. This is one of the few professional commitments I retained since joining your office. APHA is the nation's largest interdisciplinary group of health professionals.
 
Session No. 369
Call for Abstract
APHA 121st Annual Meeting
San Francisco, CA - October 24-28, 1993

Persons wishing to contribute presentations or papers to be considered for the APHA Annual Meeting must submit an abstract of the work on the form provided below. The abstract form must be accompanied by an Author-Co-Author ID Form. The 2 forms should be mailed to the designated Section, SPIG, or Caucus Representative and RECEIVED no later than February 10, 1993. Do not submit the same abstract to more than one Section or APHA component.

Author Making Presentation
Name and Title: R. Alexander Vachon, Ph.D.
Address: Office of Senator Bob Dole, 141 Hart SOB
City: Washington
State: DC
Zip: 20510
Telephone: (202) 224-8959

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INCOME ASSISTANCE FOR PEOPLE WITH WORK DISABILITIES IN 5TH AND 4TH CENTURY ATHENS: PLUS CA CHANGE
R. ALEXANDER VACHON, Ph.D., DANIEL A. MENDELSOHN, M.A.

Over the past 37 years the federal government has established two programs to provide a cash income to individuals unable to work because of disability: Social Security disability insurance (SSDI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI). These programs face continuing complex challenges, including financing, criteria for disability, adequacy of benefit, overinsurance, administration (appeals, beneficiary reviews), moral hazard, and fairness. Most comparative work has looked to contemporary European counterparts, and the first Western income program assistance for work-disabled persons, established in 5th century Athens, has received little attention. This paper discusses that program and interesting and instructive parallels to issues confronting modern U.S. programs.