John F. Holahan, Ph.D.
Director,
Health Policy Research Center at the Urban Institue

Dr. Holahan is director of the Health Policy Research Center at the Urban Institute.  Much of his work over the last 30 years has focused on the Medicaid program, as well as state health policy more broadly, and issues of federalism and health.  These include analyses of the recent growth in Medicaid expenditures, variations across states in Medicaid expenditures, changes in federal – state matching formulas and Medicaid restructuring.  Dr. Holahan has developed proposals for broad health system reform, most recently in Massachusetts.  He has recently written on the concept of a public plan to address the issues of insurer and provider consolidation, and on cost containment more generally.  He has also published research on the reasons for the growth in the uninsured over the past decade, as well as research on the effects of proposals to expand health insurance coverage on the uninsured themselves and on costs to federal and state governments.