John Sheils

Senior Vice President, The Lewin Group

John Sheils is Senior Vice President of The Lewin Group, a premier national health care and human services consulting firm with more than 35 years’ experience finding answers and solving problems for leading organizations in the public, nonprofit, and private sectors. Mr. Sheils is a nationally known authority on the cost and coverage impacts of proposals to expand health insurance coverage and reform the health care system. He has been providing health care policy consulting services with The Lewin Group for over 20 years.

John works with a variety of clients including state governments and legislatures, the federal government, private associations, foundations and health plans. He has testified before various Congressional committees and commissions on health reform and is often quoted in the media. He often works directly with members of Congress in designing health reform proposals.

Some of his more recent consulting engagements include:

• Assisted in developing health reform legislation for the office of Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon;
• Developed estimates of the impact of President Bush’s health care tax deduction proposal for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health;
• Provided technical consulting services to the Iowa State Assembly in developing the health reform bill that was recently passed by the House and the Senate;
• Assisted in developing a health reform proposal for the Federation of American Hospitals (FAH);
• Estimated the impact of several Congressional health reform proposals for the Commonwealth Fund;
• Developed detailed cost and economic impacts analyses of a universal coverage program for the Wisconsin State Senate;
• Assisted the Colorado Blue Ribbon Commission on Health Reform in evaluating five proposals to expand health insurance in the state including the single-payer model;
• Developed a universal health insurance coverage proposal for the National Association of Children’s Hospitals;
• For the California Endowment, directed a comparative analysis of the impacts of three proposals to increase insurance coverage for children in California;    
• Developed extensive analyses of several options for expanding health insurance coverage in New York for the United Hospital Fund;
• Directed a comparative analysis for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation of ten options for expanding coverage under their “covering America” project; and
• Assisted the Children’s Defense Fund in designing their proposal to extend health insurance coverage to all children.

John received a Masters in Public Policy from the Heinz School at Carnegie Mellon University and a BA from the State University of New York at Brockport.