(Bloomberg) -- The woman in charge of President Barack Obama’shealth-care overhaul is counting downthe days: She has 414 to go in the Obama administration.
Sylvia Mathews Burwell, secretary of the Department of Healthand Human Services, is trying to cram in what she can, while shecan, as she works to secure the fate of the president’s signaturedomestic policy accomplishment, the Patient Protection and Affordable CareAct.
“There are things we want to work on and do better,” Burwell, aformer director of the White House Office of Management and Budgetwho has headed HHS since June 2014, said in a recent interview.“We’re in the right direction and a solid place. I’m gettingeverything I can get done in that 13 months.”
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