Biden’s Health Administrator Lists Gains, Concerns as Exit Nears

Chiquita Brooks-LaSure is counting down her final days in office after taking over as administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services at the height of the Covid-19 health emergency in May 2021.

Her pandemic management of the “3 M’s”—Medicare, Medicaid and the HealthCare.gov marketplace—followed the first Trump administration’s periodic questioning of science-based health policies, which challenged public trust in federal programs and institutions.

Nearly four years later, Brooks-LaSure will soon leave the CMS to a returning Trump administration whose vastly different ideas about running the nation’s largest health-care programs will test the longevity of some of the Biden ...