Horizon CEO Joel White spoke with Politico about the new Speaker of the House, where he stands on healthcare, and the important role committee leaders will play in pushing through legislation.
Health care isn’t “his favorite subject,” said Joel White, a health care lobbyist and former House Ways and Means Committee staffer who founded Horizon Government Affairs. But White pointed out that Johnson led the roughly 175-member Republican Study Committee when it released a 50-page health care policy blueprint crafted in the wake of failed Republican efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare.
The Republican goal of giving committee chairs more power to steer and develop policy — rather than concentrating power among the leaders — is likely to be exaggerated under Johnson, said White and four other lobbyists.