Karen Pollitz is a Senior Fellow at the Kaiser Family Foundation. She works on the Program for the Study of Health Reform and Private Insurance, tracking implementation of private market reforms with a focus on consumer protections. Prior to joining the foundation, she worked at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on national health reform (2010–2011 and 1993–1997) and directed research on private health insurance at the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute. She has an MA in public policy from the University of California, Berkeley, and a BA from Oberlin College.