Medicaid's Role in Health Reform and Closing the Coverage Gap

Diane Rowland¹, Barbara Lyons¹

• ¹Diane 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).