Tag: Chiquita Brooks-LaSure
Medicare Surprise: Drug Plan Prices Touted During Open Enrollment Can Rise Within a Month
By Susan Jaffe | Kaiser Health News | May 3, 2022 | This KHN story also ran on
…Chiquita Brooks-LaSure: innovative US federal health director
Volume 398, Issue 10300
14 August 2021
PROFILE
Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, President Joe Biden’s choice to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, presides over an agency with a US$1 trillion budget that provides health insurance to more than 154 million people. Tackling health-care inequities is one of her top priorities. “These disparities have long existed, but COVID-19 has illuminated them in a way that is really unprecedented”, she said. [Full story here.]
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