Speaker

Joel White is the President of the Council for Affordable Health Coverage (www.cahc.net), a role he has held since 2008.

Founded in 2001, CAHC is a non-profit advocacy alliance of the nation’s largest employers, drug manufacturers, health insurers, and patient organizations with a singular focus: bringing down the cost of health care so that every American has access to affordable health coverage. CAHC has helped advocate for more than a dozen laws since Joel took the helm.

Prior to CAHC, Joel spent twelve years on Capitol Hill as professional staff, most recently as Staff Director of the Ways and Means Health Subcommittee where he helped enact nine laws, including the:

· 2002 Trade Act, which created health care tax credits

· 2003 law that established the Medicare prescription drug benefit and HSAs

· 2005 Deficit Reduction Act, and

· 2006 Tax Reform and Health Care Act, which reformed Medicare payment policies.

He is the co-author of the book, Facts and Figures on Government Finance (1992), which brings together data on public finance at all levels of government, with comparisons of taxing and spending levels spanning a half century. He holds a BS in Economics from the American University, and lives in Virginia with his wife and three sons.