Friday, January 7, 2011

NEJM: Sebelius on health care reform

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21208103

N Engl J Med. 2011 Jan 5. [Epub ahead of print]
Implementing Health Care Reform - An Interview with HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.
Iglehart JK.

Abstract
After having served as a Democratic state legislator, insurance commissioner, and governor of the traditionally Republican state of Kansas, Kathleen Sebelius was sworn in as Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) on April 28, 2009. A sprawling agency that administers Medicare and Medicaid and oversees the Food and Drug Administration, the National Institutes of Health, and other agencies, HHS spends about 25% of the federal budget. Sebelius took charge of the department during a tumultuous period, as Congress debated the sweeping health care reform bill that HHS must now administer. Sebelius shared her opinions in an interview conducted by . . .

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