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Joel White

Joel White owns his own Washington, D.C. based consulting firm, JCWhite Consulting, and provides clients with strategic, political and policy advice to help navigate the Congressional and Regulatory processes.  His focus is primarily on health and tax issues.  In addition, Mr. White is a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Galen Institute, a non-profit research organization devoted to health and tax policy.  Galen works to promote a more informed public debate over ideas that advance individual freedom, consumer choice and competition in the health sector.

Most recently, Mr. White was the Staff Director of the Ways and Means Health Subcommittee with responsibility for directing staff on all policy issues within the jurisdiction of the Subcommittee.  The issues include Medicare, Health Savings Accounts, tax credits for health insurance, insurance issues like mental health parity, and health information technology.

Mr. White began working for the Committee on Ways and Means in April 2001.  As a professional staff member on the Health Subcommittee he was responsible for Medicare reform and prescription drugs, HIPAA, insurance and health tax issues.   In his decade on Capitol Hill, Mr. White helped enact nine laws.  He assisted in the development and passage of the Administrative Simplification Compliance Act, the Medicare Regulatory and Contracting Reform Act, the Trade Act, the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003, the Deficit Reduction Act, the Health Information Technology Improvement Act, and the Tax Reform and Health Care Act. 

Prior to joining the Committee on Ways and Means, Mr. White was a Legislative Assistant for Congressman Jim Greenwood (R-PA) where he was responsible for health, retirement, banking and budget issues for the Congressman.  He helped author a comprehensive proposal to ensure the confidentiality of medical records, among other legislation. 

Mr. White worked as the Senior Legislative Assistant to Congressman Chris Shays (R-CT), where he covered health, economic growth and development and retirement issues. 

He worked at the National Taxpayers Union, as a Senior Policy Advisor focusing on health and budget related issues.  Between 1995 and 1997, Mr. White was an Adjunct Scholar at the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution.