President Barack Obama yesterday announced his selection of Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius (D) to lead the Health and Human Services Department.
Sebelius, along with former Clinton administration official Nancy-Ann DeParle (who will head the newly created White House Office for Health Reform), will be tasked with executing the president’s ambitious health care reform agenda (click here for EBN coverage on President Obama’s health care proposals and how health benefits experts handicap the odds for passage). The president’s budget sets aside $634 billion for health care reform.
