Pursuits
The Woman Who Has 13 Months to Bolster Obamacare
- Stakes couldn't be higher for president, and for HHS secretary
- She was an OMB director and worked for Clinton White House
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The woman in charge of Barack Obama’s health-care overhaul is counting down the days: She has 414 to go in the Obama administration.
Sylvia Mathews Burwell, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, is trying to cram in what she can, while she can, as she works to secure the fate of the president’s signature domestic policy accomplishment, the Affordable Care Act.