The Senate Finance Committee is scheduled to hold a long-overdue vote on Tuesday on President Obama's nominee to lead the embattled agency responsible for overseeing Medicare, Medicaid and the implementation of health care reforms. The committee ought to set aside its deep partisan divisions and unanimously endorse Marilyn Tavenner to be the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The full Senate should then confirm her.
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Ms. Tavenner, a nurse, experienced hospital administrator and former state health official, has performed capably as the acting administrator for 16 months. She was first nominated for the post in December 2011, but Republican antipathy to the agency's former administrator, Donald Berwick, Republican determination to undermine the health care reform law and insufficient votes to overcome a filibuster persuaded Democrats to shy away from a confirmation vote during a presidential election year.
Now that many senators seem willing to consider Ms. Tavenner on her own considerable merits, not as a pawn in bigger political struggles, there is no good reason to deny her the added authority that support by the full Senate would bring.
Some Republicans have high regard for her. Representative Eric Cantor, a Republican of Virginia and the House majority leader, worked with Ms. Tavenner when she led his state's health and human resources department; he has testified on her behalf before the Senate panel. Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah, the ranking Republican on the committee, considers her "a bright and capable nominee and absolutely will support her," according to his staff. We can only hope that other Republicans follow their lead.
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