What's Up in Massachusetts?
Part 2 of HPIO's 3 Part Series Health Care Coverage: Are There Lessons From Other States?

This forum, held on September 22, 2006, examined Massachusett's recently enacted plan to provide heath care coverage to everyone in the state.

Publications from forum:

Universal Health Care in Massachusetts: Implications for Ohio

Massachusetts Health Care Reform 2006: An Analysis of the Pros and Cons

Speaker's presentation
(Sept. 2006, pdf format, 200 KB)
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Speaker:

Michael Doonan, Ph.D., is an assistant professor at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University. He is the Executive Director of the Massachusetts Health Policy Forum and Director of the Council for Health Care Economics and Policy. His Ph.D. from Brandeis is both in Political Science and Health Services Research. His research and publications focus on issues related to access to health care, Medicaid, SCHIP, federal/state relations, prescription drugs, public health, and the economics of health system change.

Michael worked as program specialist for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), in the area of Medicaid managed care and state health care reform. He served as a member of President Clinton’s Health Care Taskforce working primarily on the Low-Income and Working Families work group, and as a member of the Taskforce Speakers Bureau. Michael also worked as a fellow for the U.S. Senate Finance Committee as they considered national reform in 1994. He began his career as a legislative aide for Senator John Kerry where he worked on health and environmental issues. He has a master’s degree in public administration from The George Washington University and an undergraduate degree in political science from St. Anselm College.