Dr. Susan Daniels is currently self employed, with the firm Daniels and Associates. From 1988 to 1991 Daniels served as Associate Commissioner in the Rehabilitation Services Administration in the U.S. Department of Education. From 1991 to 1994 she was Associate Commissioner of the Administration on Developmental Disabilities in the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. Daniels served as Deputy Commissioner for Disability and Income Security Programs at the Social Security Administration from 1994-2000, where she helped pass The Ticket to Work and Work Incentive Improvement Act.
Jim Roosevelt is president and chief executive officer for the Tufts Health Plan and formerly served as senior vice president and general counsel. Before joining Tufts Health Plan, Mr. Roosevelt was the associate commissioner for Retirement Policy for the Social Security Administration in Washington, D.C. He has also served as chief legal counsel for the Massachusetts Democratic Party and is co-chair of the Rules and By-laws Committee of the Democratic National Committee. Mr. Roosevelt spent 10 years as partner at Choate, Hall and Stewart in Boston. He is past chairman of the board of trustees for the Massachusetts Hospital Association, past president of the American Health Lawyers Association and past chairman of the board of trustees for Mount Auburn Hospital. Currently, Mr. Roosevelt serves as chairman of the board of directors for Massachusetts Association of Health Plans, and as a member of the board of directors at America's Health Insurance Plans, Emmanuel College and the Kenneth B. Schwartz Center. He is also co-chair of the board of directors for the Tufts Health Care Institute.
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Nov 14, 2008
Obama Transition Names Agency Review Team Leads For Social Security
President-elect Obama's transition office has announced the "team leads" for the Social Security Administration Review Team. It is not clear from the announcement whether this is the entire team. My guess is that there will be more. Here are the people announced today:
Addendum: Can someone refresh my recollection? To what extent was Dr. Susan Daniel involved with the Re-engineering and Hearing Process Improvement debacles? There were plenty of extenuating circumstances, but the Clinton Administration is hardly remembered as a golden age for the Social Security Administration. The fact that Dr. Daniel lists the failed Ticket to Work program as if it were a shining achievement is hardly reassuring.
This is a definition of "change" that I have not been aware of--appointing retreads who have been responsible for failed policies, because this time it will be different?
ReplyDeleteChange ROTFLMAO
ReplyDeleteWe have Ms. Daniels to thank for Ticket To Work ( it didn't). If any agency needs a total make over it is the SSA Baltimore crew. To take an individual who has authored many failures ( Ms. Daniels ) and put her back in some, any oversite position, is more of the same. Hopefully her stint will be short lived. Change is not just a word, especially with SSA Disability issues.
ReplyDeleteSusan Daniels was a lead person on HPI. In August 1999, I remember attending a conference in which she was the primary cheerleader for HPI. I cannot say she designed it, but she sold it.
ReplyDeleteThe disability redesign in the 1990's was Rhoda Davis's baby.
ReplyDeleteMs Daniels was never Deputy Commissioner.......she was Associate Commissioner for the Office of Disability..........
ReplyDeleteHPI was after her time and headed by Judge Cristaudo and Regional Commissioner Jim Martin under COSS Barnhart.
Daniels was in disability but was not part of the Disability Redesign Team........Rhoda Davis retired after her team published the re-engineering plan. It was managed under Shirley Chater, Chuck Jones and Sue Davis
ReplyDeleteDaniels uses a wheelchair and had her husband travel with her extensively as an SSA paid assistant while she was there.
HPI was not brought out under Barnhart. Barnhart was a Bush appointee who was appointed and she was the one who put an end to HPI. HPI actually was brought out under the auspices of Rita Geier as Associate Commissioner of OHA
ReplyDeleteCome on, let's get this straight. Daniels was the Deputy Commissioner who brought the consultant in who designed HPI. Oh sure, Stevie Wright headed the HPI team in theory, but Daniels and crew were the instigators and kept Stevie on a short leash. Barnhart (for all her faults) had nothing to do with HPI. And actually, Geier didn't have a lot to do with it either in the design stage; she just caved in to Jim Marshall and put the nail in HPI's coffin by agreeing to promote unqualified clerical staff to the decision-writing position.
ReplyDeleteThere goes the neighborhood. Change, what a joke. With Daniels on hand, that now means that the goofs who currently are wrecking the Ticket Program, Suter and O’Brien, will most likely stay on given that they are old buddies. Suter even tries to look like her old pal with bleach blond spiked hair. At least Daniels stayed at her desk and worked, rather then roaming aimlessly around Washington, lost, like Suter.
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