Obama Adm. Defends Hiring Of Ex-Health Insurance Exec To Oversee Reform

The Huffington Post reports:

The Obama administration is defending its hiring of a high-ranking Capitol Hill aide and former private health insurance vice president to oversee the implementation of health care reform after good government groups complained it violated the spirit of the president's own ethics rules.

This week, the White House hired Liz Fowler to serve as deputy director of the Office of Consumer Information and Oversight at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The post gives Fowler broad power to implement the recently-passed health care law, a piece of legislation with which she is intimately familiar since she helped write it in her previous post as chief health counsel for the Senate Finance Committee.

The health care cartel in action.