Health Care Diplomacy
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on January 16th, 2009 5:39 am by HL
Health Care Diplomacy
WASHINGTON — When George W. Bush was running for the presidency, he said he aspired to be an education president. He followed through in his first year by pressing Congress to pass the bipartisan No Child Left Behind Act. He found an effective partner in Margaret Spellings, who served first as the White House staff person in charge of drafting the legislation and then as secretary of education. The president was initially much less engaged in the business of the Department of Health and Human Services, but he was exceptionally fortunate in finding two of the ablest fellow governors in his party to run that giant and vital agency.
