Obamacare Veteran Wins Senate Nod as Medicare, Medicaid Chief

President Joe Biden’s pick to lead further expansion of the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid, Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, was confirmed Tuesday by the full Senate.

The Senate approved 55-44 the nomination of Brooks-LaSure to serve as administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. She will be entrusted with one of Biden’s top health policy priorities—strengthening and building upon Democrats’ signature health law.

Brooks-LaSure is an experienced health policy staffer who worked in the Health and Human Services Department during the Obama administration to implement the Affordable Care Act. She also worked to get the law passed as a staff ...