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 | Special Assistant to the President for Health Care and Economic Policy
The White House
Washington
DC
United States
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ELIZABETH J. FOWLER, Ph.D., J.D., serves as Special Assistant to the President for Healthcare and Economic Policy at the National Economic Council. She joins the NEC after serving as Deputy Director for Policy for the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight (OCIIO) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the new agency tasked with implementing the insurance market reforms included in the Affordable Care Act (ACA). During the health reform debate, Fowler served as Senior Counsel to the Chair and Chief Health Counsel to Senate Finance Committee Chairman, Senator Max Baucus (D-MT), where she played a critical role in development of the committee and Senate health reform legislation. In a previous stint with the Finance Committee, she also played a key role in the 2003 Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act (MMA). Fowler has more than 20 years experience in health services research and health policy. She served as vice president of public policy and external affairs for WellPoint, Inc. and as an attorney with the Washington law firm Hogan & Hartson. She also spent nearly five years as a health services researcher with HealthSystem Minnesota. Fowler received a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, a Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, where her research focused on risk adjustment, and a law degree (J.D.) from the University of Minnesota. She is admitted to the bar in the District of Columbia and Maryland. |
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