Joel White

Founder and President at Horizon Government Affairs

Speaker

Joel is the Founder and President of Horizon Government Affairs, a health care consultancy that represents several dozen clients and runs four coalitions comprised of 200 organizations dedicated to reforms that improve our health system. Horizon has specific issue expertise in drug pricing, coverage and reimbursement; technology and data issues; and insurance and benefit design matters. Horizon has helped enact more than 50 laws since its founding and prevented countless bad ideas from seeing the light of day.

Previously, Joel spent twelve years on Capitol Hill including as Staff Director of the Ways and Means Health Subcommittee. While on the Hill he helped enact nine laws, including the:

• 2002 Trade Act, which created health care tax credits for private coverage;
• 2003 law that established the Medicare prescription drug benefit and created Health Savings Accounts; and
• 2005 Deficit Reduction Act and the 2006 Tax Reform and Health Care Act, which reformed Medicare payment policies.

Joel also runs a charitable organization that seeks to end poverty and is on the boards of several non-profits in the patient advocacy space. He holds a B.S. in Economics from the American University and is the co-author of the book, Facts and Figures on Government Finance.