,The Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction (Super Committee) recently announced new staff members, several of which will provide technical expertise on issues of importance to Schutjer-Bogar’s clients, specifically Medicaid and federal budgetary policy.
Steve Bailey will function as Senior Tax Counsel to the Committee. Mr. Bailey comes from the Senate Budget Committee Democratic Staff, where he served as Senior Tax Counsel to Chairman Kent Conrad. Prior to working on the Budget Committee, he served a staff member to former House Ways and Means member, Rep. Don Pease.
Marc Goldwein will serve as Senior Budget Analyst to the Committee. In this position, he will be keeping and reconciling all of the budgetary savings for the Super Committee. Before joining the Committee, Mr. Goldwein served as Policy Director for the Bipartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB). As a pre-cursor to the Super Committee, Goldwein was an Associate Director at the Simpson-Bowles Fiscal Commission.
April Grady will serve as Senior Health Analyst to the Committee, focusing on Medicaid issues. Ms. Grady has detailed experience from her position as a Principal Analyst with the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC). Before joining MACPAC, she worked at the Congressional Research Service (CRS) and the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) on Medicaid and private health insurance issues.
Jim Hahn will serve as Senior Health Analyst to the Committee. Mr. Hahn is a health economist and specialist in health care financing with the Domestic Social Policy Division of the CRS. During his time at CRS, Mr. Hahn assisted Congress with issues related to Medicare expenditures, pharmacoeconomics, health care delivery, and payment reform.
It is important to note that, while the Super Committee staff will provide needed policy expertise, the members of the Super Committee, their personal staff, and key congressional committee staff (e.g. Senate Finance, Ways and Means, Armed Services) will still be shaping critical policy and making political decisions related to debt reduction items.
Bryant Hall is the president and founder of Tiber Creek Health Strategies. Hall partnered with Schutjer Bogar in 2011 to provide strategic consulting including the most up-to-date news on Medicaid issues and policies.
