Tom Leibfried

Legislative Representative, AFL-CIO

Tom Leibfried is the health care lobbyist for the AFL-CIO, and works with Congress to improve health care coverage for America’s working families. His work focuses on employer-based health insurance, the Affordable Care Act, Medicaid, and the Children’s Health Insurance Program.

He also represents his union as a trustee on the board of the AFL-CIO Health and Welfare Fund, a multiemployer health plan providing health coverage to labor organizations.

Tom has 23 years of health care policy experience in a career that spans from managing community providers to government service to policy advocacy. Before joining AFL-CIO, Tom lobbied on Medicare and Medicaid issues for the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare and the American Psychiatric Association. He has also served as Vice President of Government Relations for the National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare and as Director of Consumer Advocacy for the National Mental Health Association.

Tom received his Master of Public Administration degree from the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan.