The House-passed reconciliation bill would make the largest changes to healthcare since the Affordable Care Act—but in the opposite direction, with less input and worse projected outcomes.
Author: Jeanne Lambrew
Jeanne Lambrew is the director of healthcare reform and a senior fellow at The Century Foundation. From 2019 to 2024, she served as the commissioner of the Maine Department of Health and Human Services. As commissioner, Lambrew helped expand and improve affordable health care to more than 100,000 people, bringing the state’s uninsured rate to its lowest point ever; contributed to Maine’s nation-leading COVID-19 response, including the highest vaccination rate of older residents and one of the lowest death rates in the country; and made historic investments in health and human services.