{"id":22213,"date":"2015-01-18T22:00:16","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T03:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=22213"},"modified":"2015-01-18T22:00:16","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T03:00:16","slug":"key-obamacare-implementer-resigning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/22213\/key-obamacare-implementer-resigning\/","title":{"rendered":"Key ObamaCare Implementer Resigning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marilyn Tavenner, the chief administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), announced in an email last Friday to staff that she is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/102330018#. \" target=\"_blank\">stepping down at the end of February<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes as something of a surprise, but the timing is similar to that of Tavenner\u2019s former boss, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. Last year, Sebelius said she was leaving her post after ObamaCare\u2019s initial enrollment period ended. Tavenner\u2019s resignation is effective when the controversial health law\u2019s second enrollment period concludes.<\/p>\n<p>Tavenner\u2019s time in office was marred by a glitch-ridden rollout of Healthcare.gov, the federal ObamaCare website that earned the ire of millions of Americans. She also came under fire for overstating ObamaCare\u2019s enrollment figures by inaccurately including 400,000 dental plans that have never been counted toward health insurance numbers.<\/p>\n<p>With Republicans in control of the Senate that will confirm Tavenner\u2019s replacement, it will be interesting to see who President Barack Obama taps to fill her shoes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marilyn Tavenner, the chief administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), announced in an email last Friday to staff that she is stepping down at the end of February. The move comes as something of a surprise, but the timing is similar to that of Tavenner\u2019s former boss, Health and Human Services [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4579,3308,476,4566,232,235,35],"class_list":["post-22213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-cms","tag-health","tag-kathleen-sebelius","tag-marilyn-tavenner","tag-medicaid","tag-medicare","tag-obamacare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22213"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22221,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22213\/revisions\/22221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}