President and Founder; Former Deputy Assistant for Health Policy and Coordinator of Health Reform; Former Senior Health Advisor

Jennings Policy Strategies, Inc.; The White House (Obama); The White House (Clinton)  |  Washington, DC

Chris Jennings is an over three decades-long health policy veteran of the White House, the Congress and the private sector. Jennings is currently President of Jennings Policy Strategies, a nationally respected health care consulting firm. In January 2014, he departed from his second tour of duty in the White House where he served President Obama as Senior Advisor to the President for Health Policy. He served in a similar capacity in the Clinton White House for nearly eight years. From his positions in the executive branch, Jennings has helped implement the Affordable Care Act’s access and delivery reform provisions (for President Obama) as well as played leadership roles in the development, passage and implementation of bipartisan health reforms, such as the Children’s Health Insurance Program and major Medicare reforms in the Balanced Budget Act (BBA) of 1997 (for President Clinton). In his decade of service in the U.S. Senate, he served as the Deputy Director of the Special Committee on Aging for three Senators (Glenn, Pryor, and Melcher) and led major reform efforts in the areas of long-term care, prescription drug coverage/cost containment, and rural health care. Chris Jennings is an over three decades-long health policy veteran of the White House, the Congress and the private sector. Jennings is currently President of Jennings Policy Strategies, a nationally respected health care consulting firm. In January 2014, he departed from his second tour of duty in the White House where he served President Obama as Senior Advisor to the President for Health Policy. He served in a similar capacity in the Clinton White House for nearly eight years. From his positions in the executive branch, Jennings has helped implement the Affordable Care Act’s access and delivery reform provisions (for President Obama) as well as played leadership roles in the development, passage and implementation of bipartisan health reforms, such as the Children’s Health Insurance Program and major Medicare reforms in the Balanced Budget Act (BBA) of 1997 (for President Clinton). In his decade of service in the U.S. Senate, he served as the Deputy Director of the Special Committee on Aging for three Senators (Glenn, Pryor, and Melcher) and led major reform efforts in the areas of long-term care, prescription drug coverage/cost containment, and rural health care.