Edwin Park

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Edwin Park

Edwin Park is a Research Professor at the Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy.  His work primarily focuses on Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and the Affordable Care Act and he is considered one of the nation’s leading health policy experts on issues related to Medicaid and CHIP financing and the Affordable Care Act’s coverage expansions, among others.  He also analyzes tax policies related to health care, private health insurance markets and policies related to prescription drugs.

He has testified before Congress and the California state legislature, been interviewed by media outlets such as National Public Radio and CNBC, and has been cited in numerous print publications including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle and the Chicago Tribune and in digital media such as Politico, Vox and HuffPost.  

Previously, he worked for 17 years at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a non-partisan, non-profit research and policy organization based in Washington D.C. that focuses on fiscal policy and policies affecting low- and moderate-income individuals and families at both the federal and state levels.  Most recently, he was Vice President for Health Policy, co-directing the Center’s 15-person health policy team.

He also served as the health policy advisor for the National Economic Council at the White House during the Clinton Administration and as a Medicaid professional staff member for the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, as part of the minority staff of then-Ranking Member Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan.  He also was an attorney in private practice, as part of the Health Practice Group at Hogan & Hartson (now Hogan Lovells). He is a member of the National Academy of Social Insurance.

He has a J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.  He also has an A.B. in Public and International Affairs, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from Princeton University.

Latest From Edwin

CCF Comments to Administration’s Harmful Rebate Safe Harbor Rule

We submitted comments to the Trump Administration’s proposed regulation to eliminate the safe harbor in the federal anti-kickback law for rebates negotiated by pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) on behalf of Medicaid managed care plans (and Medicare Part D plans).   As we have previously written, the proposed regulation raises serious concerns because it would likely […]

Many Unanswered Questions about Trump Budget’s CHIP Financing Proposal

The Trump Administration’s fiscal year 2020 budget, released on March 11, includes a single legislative proposal (described here) related to the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).  Entitled “Strengthen the CHIP Safety Net for States,” the proposal would eliminate the CHIP’s Child Enrollment Contingency Fund in fiscal year 2021 and replace it with a new Shortfall […]

Trump Budget Includes Harmful Medicaid Drug Rebate Proposal, Several Sound Improvements

On March 11, the Trump Administration released its fiscal year 2020 budget.  As my colleague Andy Schneider has written, the Administration budget plan would repeal the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion, impose a per capita cap or block grant on the rest of the Medicaid program, require all states to adopt onerous work reporting requirements […]

How to Assess the Impact of Health Coverage Expansion Proposals on Children

With the outcome of the Congressional midterm elections, the risk of federal legislation to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act and impose a cap on federal Medicaid funding has receded.  Some federal policymakers are instead renewing focus on how to again make substantial progress towards the goal of universal coverage. This need has become […]