On Wednesday, President Barack Obama signed an executive order to establish an official office specifically intended to bring health reform to this country.
The office, the White House Office of Health Reform, will oversee health reform on a broad scale working with members of Congress, health care and health insurance organizations, and anyone else with a stake in policy change.
As outlined in the executive order from the president, the main purpose of the Health Reform Office is to push through Obama’s agenda for health care, reported the Washington Post blog 44.
Nancy-Ann DeParle, a former director of the Health Care Financing Administration under President Clinton, will head up the office as the so-called “Health Reform Czar. ”
If the establishment of this office wasn’t enough to convince everyone President Obama is serious about health reform, he also said the Secretary of Health and Human Services-to-be (Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius) will create another health reform office within the HHS.
“By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in the interest of providing all Americans access to affordable and high-quality health care, it is hereby ordered as follows… ” Read the whole executive order here.