Senate confirms Trump pick to head Medicare and Medicaid

WTOP News (Washington DC) ^ | March 13, 2017 6:34 pm | AP

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s pick to run Medicare and Medicaid won confirmation Monday from a divided Senate as lawmakers braced for another epic battle over the government’s role in health care and society’s responsibility toward the vulnerable.

Indiana health care consultant Seema Verma, a protégé of Vice President Mike Pence, was approved by a 55-43 vote, largely along party lines. She’ll head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, a $1 trillion agency that oversees health insurance programs for more than 130 million people, from elderly nursing home residents to newborns. It’s part of the Department of Health and Human Services.

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Right—but grammar policing on the Net is generally rude and it was, at least to me, obvious what was intended.

But if you think it was Trump own, freely generated, idea to nominate her I think you are kidding yourself.

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Right—but grammar policing on the Net is generally rude and it was, at least to me, obvious what was intended.

Unabashed grammar Nazi here. If we debase the language, we debase the thoughts we express in it. If that is considered rude, it's more of a problem for who's considering it so. I intend no slight or disrespect to the OP or even the author of the original article. "In many things we all offend." (James 3:2)

But if you think it was Trump own, freely generated, idea to nominate her I think you are kidding yourself.

"Freely generated"? What would qualify for that description? Maybe a coin toss?

CS Lewis once said that he never felt so free as when he was most compelled — speaking of his conversion.

In the case of Cabinet picks, these are, as with Seema Verma, the responsibility and decision of the POTUS, and the means by which he arrives at them are at his own discretion. If he uses advice from the VP, well, so what? After the appointment leaves his desk, it has his signature on it, and it may be properly attributed so.