Amid health reform, massive Medicare

Nine months into his term, President Barack Obama has yet to nominate someone to head an agency that will play an enormous role in implementing any healthcare reform legislation Congress passes this year.

“It’s totally bizarre, what’s going on,” ... "It’s a very bad situation, particularly in a year when healthcare reform is such a big issue.”

The agency has 4,400 employees, a $676 billion annual budget and a duty to provide healthcare to 44.6 million people enrolled in Medicare, 51 million in Medicaid and 6.3 million in the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)...

[This is government run health care.]

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