• Diane Rowland and Barbara Lyons.
• Diane Rowland, Sc.D., is the Executive Vice President of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and Executive Director of the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured. Dr. Rowland served as the inaugural chair of the congressionally authorized Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC) from 2009-2016. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and received her Doctor of Science from the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD). Barbara Lyons, Ph.D., is a Senior Vice President at the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation where she is the Director of the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured. In the past she served as a member of the policy staff for The Commonwealth Fund Commission on Elderly People Living Alone. Dr. Lyons received her Ph.D. in health policy from the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD).
• J Law Med Ethics. 2016 Dec 1; 44 (4): 580-584.

AbstractMedicaid coverage matters for millions of low-income Americans, and especially for those with ongoing and serious health challenges. A source of comprehensive and affordable coverage, Medicaid has long been a cornerstone of federal and state efforts to improve access and health outcomes for very poor and medically vulnerable populations. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) leveraged Medicaid's role in serving the poor to broaden the program's reach to millions of low-income uninsured adults, and positioned the program as a fundamental component of the newly established continuum of public and private coverage. Looking ahead, if more states embrace the Medicaid expansion, there is the potential to build on this progress to significantly reduce the number of uninsured Americans.

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