Obama will name Mark Miller head of Medicare and Medicaid services

[Thrill]

Breaking: President-elect Obama will name Mark Miller, executive director of Congress' Medicare advisory agency, as head of Medicare and Medicaid services. At an 11 a.m. news conference today, Obama will unveil his health team that includes Miller and former Sen. Tom Daschle as Health and Human Services secretary, according to a source close to the transition.

http://www.politico.com/politico44/

[CTyankee]

1. Anyone know if Miller is strongly pro-choice, pro-family planning? na/t

[AllentownJake]

2. No offense

but I care more if he is talented in healthcare overall and budgetting and if he's willing to take on redoing that disastrous Part D legislation.

Family planning is not really a concern for the Medicare population and the states deem what is coverable under medicaid.

[madfloridian]

3. Family planning is a huge issue. I care very much.

Daschle tried to get an anti-abortion bill passed 10 years ago that was more rigid than the bill of the Republicans.

I am looking up more about this Mark Miller, because family planning matters among many under Medicare and more than many under Medicaid.

[Kber]

4. But it's a pretty big issue for Medicaid recipients

Should the government pay for abortions and family planning for poor women?