Veteran health advocate and researcher Stan Dorn has worked on health policy for 25 years at the state and federal level. He began as a legal aid attorney helping low-income Californians obtain health care. Later as health division director at the Children's Defense Fund he led the organization's health policy team in a national campaign that helped create the Children's Health Insurance Program -- and he also helped defeat Newt Gingrich's proposal to replace Medicaid with a block grant. He is now a senior research associate at the Urban Institute, but his posts represent his personal opinions and should not be ascribed to the Urban Institute, its trustees, or funders.