MedCity News February 16, 2021
Anuja Vaidya

At a Health Datapalooza session, former HHS head Kathleen Sebelius looked back on lessons learned in 2009 when the Affordable Care Act was moving through Congress. She cautioned the Biden administration against leaning on bipartisanship when restoring the healthcare law.

Joe Biden’s presidency means only one thing for the Affordable Care Act — that it will be restored and strengthened over the next four years. But to be successful, the new administration needs to learn from the lessons of 2009 when the then-controversial policy was being enshrined into law by President Barrack Obama.

That’s according to Kathleen Sebelius, who served as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services from 2009 to 2014. On Tuesday at the all-virtual...

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Topics: ACA (Affordable Care Act), Conferences / Podcast, Congress / White House, Govt Agencies, Insurance, Patient / Consumer, Payer, Provider, Public Exchange, Trends
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