URBAN INSTITUTE
ENROLLING THE UNINSURED UNDER NATIONAL HEALTH REFORM
January 6, 2012
Julie Appleby, a reporter with Kaiser Health News (moderator), covers the implementation of
the health care overhaul law, the interplay of health care treatments and costs, trends in health
insurance, and policy issues affecting hospitals and other medical providers. Before joining KHN
in 2009, Appleby spent 10 years on the health care industry and policy beat for USA Today. She
has also worked at the San Francisco Chronicle, the Financial Times in London, and the Contra
Costa Times in Walnut Creek, Calif. She is on the board of the Association of Health Care
Journalists.
Stan Dorn is a health policy senior fellow at the Urban Institute and an expert on the Affordable
Care Act (ACA), Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and federal programs to
subsidize coverage for laid-off workers. Research by Dorn, a leading analyst of strategies for
maximizing coverage among individuals who qualify for subsidies, helped shape the Express
Lane Eligibility option established by the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization
Act of 2009 and the ACA’s streamlined enrollment provisions. Before coming to the Urban
Institute, Dorn was the health division director at the Children’s Defense Fund.
Jason Levitis is a senior adviser to the assistant secretary for tax policy in the Treasury
Department’s Office of Tax Policy. He provides research, analysis, and liaison regarding tax
policy, tax legislation, IRS regulations, and tax reform. Since joining Treasury in early 2009, he
has played a lead role in crafting and implementing the Affordable Care Act. Before coming to
Treasury, Levitis was a senior staffer at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and the
Greater New York Hospital Association.
Penny Thompson has been the deputy director of the Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services
(CMCS), within the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), since 2009. She leads
activities related to Medicaid and CHIP policy, program operations, financial management, and
coordination and planning efforts for the 2014 Medicaid expansion. In 2000 and 2001, she
served as deputy director and acting director of the Center for Medicaid and State Operations
(now CMCS). She has been the director for program integrity at CMS and has held senior posts
in the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General.
Mark McClellan directs the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform at the Brookings
Institution. A doctor and economist by training, McClellan was the administrator of the Centers
for Medicare & Medicaid Services from 2004 to 2006, commissioner of the Food and Drug
Administration (2002–04), a member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers and
senior director for health care policy at the White House (2001–02), and deputy assistant
secretary of the treasury for economic policy (1998–99). In these positions, he developed and
implemented major reforms, including the Medicare prescription drug benefit, and innovative
approaches to coverage in Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program.