Stan Dorn
Stan Dorn is the Director, Health Policy Project of UnidosUS. Since June 2022, Stan has directed UnidosUS’s health policy advocacy. In his previous roles, Stan has served as director of the National Center for Coverage Innovation at Families USA, one of the country’s leading health consumer advocacy groups; Senior Fellow at the Urban Institute’s Health Policy Center; Health Division Director at the Children’s Defense Fund; and Managing Attorney for the National Health Law Program. With more than 35 years of state and federal work focused primarily on protecting and promoting health coverage and care for low-income people, Stan has made major contributions to streamlined enrollment provisions in the Affordable Care Act; Express Lane Eligibility; the creation of the Children’s Health Insurance Program and the Health Coverage Tax Credit program for trade-displaced workers; increased premium tax credits under the American Rescue Plan Act and the Inflation Reduction Act; defeat of Medicaid block grant proposals; federal funding guidelines for the Basic Health Program; improvements to federal risk-adjustment systems for Marketplace coverage; state fiscal relief provisions in 2009 federal stimulus legislation; and state policies to improve affordability of Marketplace coverage through premium alignment and fees on insurance premium revenue, streamline enrollment into health coverage based on state income-tax filing, and limit health program discrimination based on immigration status.