Eric Cantor Praises Obama Medicare Nominee Marilyn Tavenner

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Huffington Post

Eric Cantor Praises Obama Medicare Nominee Marilyn Tavenner
By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR 11/29/11 03:47 PM ET

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's Medicare nominee Tuesday got unexpected support from one of Congress' Republican stars. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor told The Associated Press that Marilyn Tavenner is "eminently qualified" to run Medicare.

It may be too soon to contemplate a truce in the political wars over health care. With Tavenner, major players on both sides may be able to shift from confrontation to problem-solving.

The White House announced Tavenner's nomination last week to replace current Medicare chief Donald Berwick, who had run into a wall of opposition from Republicans and couldn't even get a hearing in the Senate. As head of Medicare and Medicaid, the former nurse would be responsible for programs that already provide coverage to 100 million Americans, as well as for putting in place the new health overhaul law to cover the uninsured.

Cantor said he met Tavenner years ago when he was a state legislator in Richmond, Va., and she was a senior executive for Hospital Corporation of America, a major hospital chain.



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[truebrit71]

1. Which immediately makes me suspicious of her....

....

[polichick]

2. Me too - my first thought: Has the president chosen a teabagger?

[madmax]

3. Oh yes.

Like Bill Clinton praising Newt on Newsmax, no less. But, there is a madness the the Big Dog's madness. He's been wrangling with them for years and he's good at it.

[FiveGoodMen]

4. The pukes like everything that Obama has done

(because it's what they wanted in the first place)

But it's unusual to have one come out and say so.

[xchrom]

5. 'a hospital chain'. That tells me a lot right there. Nt

[freshwest]

6. You nailed it.

[pmorlan1]

7. Cause for worry?

If Cantor supports her... Yeah, you know.

[kath]

8. Isn't it wonderful how our so-called "Democratic" president is so good at making the Repugs happy?

All that "reaching across the aisle" stuff?

"senior executive for Hospital Corporation of America' tells me all I need to know. Jeebus H. Christ on a Trailer Hitch.