Chamber Boosts Health Care Focus with New Hires, Promotion

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The United States Chamber of Commerce is strengthening its health care focus by bringing in two new staffers and promoting its health care policy director. And by coincidence, all three happen to be named Katherine.

Kate Sullivan Hare has been promoted to executive director of health care policy for the Chamber. Katie Mahoney has been hired as the Chamber's new manager of health care policy. And Katie Strong will join the Chamber this month as its new health care lobbyist.

"No matter the outcome of this election, health care looms large as a major issue the upcoming administration and Congress will have to address," said Thomas Donohue, Chamber President and CEO. "The experience and knowledge of the Chamber's expanded health care team will keep us at the forefront of this issue and in representing our members on the Hill and in federal agencies."

Sullivan Hare has been with the Chamber since 1999 and helps determine the Chamber's position and recommends courses of action with regard to legislative and regulatory health care proposals. Prior to joining the Chamber, she worked on Capitol Hill; for a nonprofit multi-provider health system; and for a law firm representing medical specialty providers.

Mahoney joined the Chamber this summer after working for a health care consulting firm that specializes in assisting state agencies with their Medicaid programs. Prior to that, she worked for an insurance provider in Louisiana; and did a fellowship for a fully integrated health system comprised of a provider-owned health plan, hospital and physician group.

Strong will help represent the Chamber's health care positions before Congress and the administration. Prior to joining the Chamber, she lobbied on health care issues for an association; worked for a major D.C. law firm; and did fund raising for the Republican National Committee.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is the world's largest business federation representing more than three million businesses and organizations of every size, sector and region.

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