Rachel Swindle

Rachel Swindle, M.P.P., is a research fellow at the Center on Health Insurance Reforms (CHIR) at Georgetown University’s Health Policy Institute. Her research at CHIR focuses on regulations of private insurance and state-based marketplaces under the Affordable Care Act, with a particular interest in exploring regulatory loopholes that leave privately insured patients vulnerable to unexpected costs. Prior to joining CHIR, Swindle worked at the World Bank Group’s Poverty and Equity Practice and Georgetown University’s Initiative on Innovation, Development, and Evaluation (Gui2de). She also has served as a graduate teaching assistant for several quantitative methods courses at the McCourt School of Public Policy, in addition to interning with the American Civil Liberties Union and the Senate Finance Committee under ranking member, Senator Ron Wyden (D–Ore.). Swindle holds an M.P.P. from the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown, where she completed a graduate thesis examining the socioeconomic impacts of health clinic regulations.