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Prénom Nom :
Bjorklund Cibele
Contact :
Committee on Ways and Means
1101 Longworth House Office Bldg
Washington DC 20515
Phone number : (202) 255-3843
Email : [email protected]
Catégorie : Législatif
Staff House of Representatives Committee on health.
Démocrate qui a d’abord travaillé avec Kennedy & Daschle au Sénat avant de passer à la
House.
Dates de naissance / décès :
Née : 25 septembre 1967
Lieu de naissance :
Nuremberg, Allemagne
Genre : Female
Lieu de résidence (si DC avant l’accession à un poste retenu, avec si
possible l’année de l’emménagement à DC):
Arrivée à Washington DC en 1991.
Formation :
BA/BS
MA/MS
Bachelor’s degree, Journalism, School of Journalism at the University
of Oregon, 1989
Master’s, Johns Hopkins University’s School of Hygiene and Public
Health, 1994
PhD
Law degree (JD…)
Autre
W. Genieys, Operationalizing Programmatic Elites Research in America, OPERA : ANR-­‐08-­‐BLAN-­‐0032. 1 Profession initiale :
Policy analyst in administration
Professional Staffer
Carrière :
- 1991-1993 : Public Affairs Specialist, St. Jospeh’s Care Group
- 1994-1995 : Medicare and insurance policy analyst at the Health Care Financing
Administration (now the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services)
- 1995-1997 : Legislative aide on health and veterans’ issues for Senate Democratic Leader
Tom Daschle (D-SD)
- 1998-2001 : deputy staff director for health policy on the Health, Education, Labor and
Pensions Committee in the United States Senate, Senator Edward Kennedy’s (D-MA)
- 2001-2012 : staff director for the Health Subcommittee on the Committee on Ways and
Means in the United States House of Representatives
Sources biblio/bio, articles, divers.
CYBELE BJORKLUND
Cybele Bjorklund is the staff director for the Health Subcommittee on the Committee on Ways and
Means in the United States House of Representatives. Led by Chairman Charles B. Rangel (D-NY)
and Health Subcommittee Chairman Pete Stark (D-CA), the Committee’s health portfolio includes
Medicare, private health insurance, and health issues in the Internal Revenue Code. She has been the
senior health care advisor to Democratic members on the Committee since 2001.
Prior to this position, she spent nearly four years as Senator Edward Kennedy’s (D-MA) deputy staff
director for health policy on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee in the United
States Senate. From 1995-1997, she worked as a legislative aide on health and veterans’ issues for
Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD). Before moving to Congress, Bjorklund was a
Medicare and insurance policy analyst at the Health Care Financing Administration (now the Centers
for Medicare and Medicaid Services).
Bjorklund received a master’s degree from the Johns Hopkins University’s School of Hygiene and
Public Health, with an emphasis on health policy and a concentration in law, ethics and policy, and a
bachelor’s degree in journalism from the School of Journalism at the University of Oregon. She is a
member of the National Academy of Social Insurance, serves on the advisory committees of the
National Health Policy Forum and the Center for Studying Health System Change, and is on the board
of directors for the David A. Winston Health Policy Fellowship program.
Source : https://www.ecri.org/Documents/2008%20TA%20conf/Bjorklund.bio.pdf, consulté le
7 novembre 2013.
W. Genieys, Operationalizing Programmatic Elites Research in America, OPERA : ANR-­‐08-­‐BLAN-­‐0032. 2 Health Care: Five Hill Aides to Know
Cybele Bjorklund Minority staff director, House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health
Bjorklund knows Medicare policy cold. Never mind that her side is in the House minority; she will be
a central staff player in whatever Congressional debate happens on health care this year — as
has been the case every year since 2001, when she took over as the top Democratic aide on the
W. Genieys, Operationalizing Programmatic Elites Research in America, OPERA : ANR-­‐08-­‐BLAN-­‐0032. 3 subcommittee.
In the coming weeks, her principal job will be helping lawmakers find billions of dollars in payment
offsets to fix Medicare’s physician payment formula. Her first priority might be blocking increases
in monthly premiums for seniors.
Her influence is assured by her detailed knowledge about how almost any change in Medicare policy
could affect health care for the nation’s politically powerful elderly population. Lawmakers are loath
to disrupt the status quo of care for seniors, and Democrats on the Health subpanel set the tone on the
Hill when it comes to protecting beneficiary interests.
The panel is sometimes referred to as Medicare’s board of directors because it oversees the Centers for
Medicare and Medicaid Services. In this Democratic administration, Bjorklund has especially close
ties to the agency, in part because several colleagues have left the Hill for the CMS to help implement
the 2010 health care overhaul. She keeps a lawyerly eye on whether the regulations coming out of the
CMS square with Congressional intent in writing the health care law, which she helped negotiate.
Bjorklund isn’t a lawyer, though. A journalism graduate from the University of Oregon, she began her
career doing public relations for a TV station and then a hospital in Indiana, then earned a master’s
degree in public health with a concentration in law at Johns Hopkins University in 1994 — just as
President Bill Clinton’s remake of the health care system was running aground. (She says she said to
herself, “I’m tired of talking about what people do in health policy; I’d like to go to school to do health
policy.”)
She spent a year as a Medicare analyst at CMS’ forerunner agency before coming to the Senate as a
health care aide to a pair of prominent Democrats, first Tom Daschle (S.D.) and then Edward Kennedy
(Mass.).
— John Reichard
Source : http://www.rollcall.com/features/30-Hill-Aides-to-Know_2012/hill_aides_to_know/healthcare-211885-1.html, consulté le 7 novembre 2013.
Sources additionnelles :
CQ PRESS first street, who’s who, legistorm
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