{"id":44239,"date":"2017-03-21T15:05:25","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T14:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dandavats.tumblr.com\/post\/158665876111"},"modified":"2017-03-21T15:09:31","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T14:09:31","slug":"seema-verna-takes-her-oath-of-office-on-srila-prabhupadas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=44239","title":{"rendered":"Seema Verna takes her oath of office on Srila Prabhupada\u2019s Bhagavad Gita"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Seema Verna takes her oath of office on Srila Prabhupada\u2019s Bhagavad Gita.
\nIndian-American Seema Verma swears-in as Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services head, places hand on Bhagavad-Gita.
\nNEW YORK: Seema Verma, President Donald Trump\u2019s choice for Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, was sworn-in by U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, as she placed her hand on the holy Hindu text- Bhagwad Gita in the presence of her family. <\/p>\n

Verma was surrounded by her husband Sanjay, daughter Maya, son Sean, as well as her mother and sister as she took the oath, following which she was introduced by Pence as \u201cone of the leading experts\u201d on state-based healthcare solutions in the country, chosen by President Trump. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe President has asked you to bring your expertise to D.C. We\u2019re confident that you\u2019ll help restore health care decision making to the states, and in the process help make the best healthcare system in the world even better,\u201d Pence said. <\/p>\n

After her swearing-in ceremony, Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, M.D., and Verma took their first joint action, cosigning a letter to the nation\u2019s governors affirming the Department\u2019s intent to work with states to improve the Medicaid program and the lives of those it serves.<\/p>\n

White House press secretary Sean Spicer had said earlier in a briefing that President Trump looks forward to having the \u201cspectacularly qualified and experienced\u201d Administrator Verma finally onboard, especially as the U.S. Government continues to lay the groundwork for the reform of the healthcare system.<\/p>\n

Verma was confirmed by a divided U.S. Senate which voted largely along party lines and after Democratic attempts to delay what was an inevitable appointment in a Republican majority Senate. This was unlike the confirmation of most other Indian-Americans in the past who have usually been endorsed in a bipartisan vote or by a large majority.<\/p>\n

However, Verma faces an uphill task now as the Congressional Budget Office, considered a non-partisan body, estimated that the first tranche of the GOP\u2019s American Healthcare Bill, for \u201crepealing and replacing\u201d Obamacare, would leave 14 million people uninsured in 2018 and 24 million by 2026. <\/p>\n

Verma is now second Indian-American to be in charge of a plum administration post, after Nikki Haley- the US Ambassador to the United Nations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Seema Verna takes her oath of office on Srila Prabhupada’s Bhagavad Gita.
\nIndian-American Seema Verma swears-in as Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services head, places hand on Bhagavad-Gita. NEW YORK: Seema Verma, President Donald Trumps choice for Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, was sworn-in by U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, as she placed her hand on the holy Hindu text- Bhagwad Gita in the presence of her family.
\nVerma was surrounded by her husband Sanjay, daughter Maya, son Sean, as well as her mother and sister as she took the oath, following which she was introduced by Pence as one of the leading experts on state-based healthcare solutions in the country, chosen by President Trump.
\nThe President has asked you to bring your expertise to D.C. Were confident that youll help restore health care decisionmaking to the states, and in the process help make the best healthcare system in the world even better, Pence said.
\nAfter her swearing-in ceremony, Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, M.D., and Verma took their first joint action, cosigning a letter to the nations governors affirming the Departments intent to work with states to improve the Medicaid program and the lives of those it serves.
\nWhite House press secretary Sean Spicer had said earlier in a briefing that President Trump looks forward to having the spectacularly qualified and experienced Administrator Verma finally onboard, especially as the U.S. Government continues to lay the groundwork for the reform of the healthcare system.
\nVerma was confirmed by a divided U.S. Senate which voted largely along party lines and after Democratic attempts to delay what was an inevitable appointment in a Republican majority Senate. This was unlike the confirmation of most other Indian-Americans in the past who have usually been endorsed in a bipartisan vote or by a large majority.
\nHowever, Verma faces an uphill task now as the Congressional Budget Office, considered a non-partisan body, estimated that the first tranche of the GOPs American Healthcare Bill, for repealing and replacing Obamacare, would leave 14 million people uninsured in 2018 and 24 million by 2026.
\nVerma is now second Indian-American to be in charge of a plum administration post, after Nikki Haley- the US Ambassador to the United Nations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44239"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44244,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44239\/revisions\/44244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}