...president also said that Nancy-Ann DeParle, the former chief of Medicare and Medicaid during the Clinton administration, will lead a new Office of Health Reform in the White House and work with Sebelius in shepherding the administration’s health- care initiatives through Congress....She sits on the board of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation...
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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aWPXR80ZNoV4&refer=home
Regular readers know that it was Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's influence over lawmakers via non-profit funded surrogates who were instrumental in getting smoking bans implemented around the globe. Those same bans caused tens of thousands of business closings, eliminating hundreds of thousands of jobs, thrusting the world economy into its current state.
Nominating tax dodging officials, and individuals who are responsible for contributing to our current economic meltdown into prominent positions certainly is change......but at what cost?