Mike Russo is our Health Care
Advocate and Staff Attorney. He ran CALPIRG’s campaigns during
California’s 2007-08 push for health care reform, and during the federal effort
in 2009-10. In those campaigns, his work including leading outreach
efforts to pro-reform small business owners, and coordinating policy analysis
and response. He has authored and co-authored numerous reports on health
care policy, including The Three Trillion Dollar Question, which
evaluated the potential cost-saving benefits of reform, and Delivering on
the Promise, a guide to state-level implementation of 2010’s health care
reform law. His particular policy focuses include insurance reform and
policies to lower costs and improve care. Previously to joining CALPIRG, he
worked with other public interest organizations on human rights and First
Amendment issues. He graduated from the California Institute of
Technology in 2002 and from Columbia Law School in 2007.
