Journal of Public Health Management and Practice Lessons From the Front Line: The Massachusetts Experience of the Role of Public Health in Health Care Reform About 6 years ago, I was appointed the Massachusetts Commissioner of Public Health just as the state’s groundbreaking health care legislation was on the verge of being implemented. Certain things we clearly anticipated. The Massachusetts Medicaid Program (known as Mass Health) would surely expand its eligibility criteria so that a few hundred thousand more residents could enroll. The country’s first insurance exchange—the Connector—would be […]