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