As Obama's health czar, DeParle was the administration's "point guard" in overhauling the American health-care system. She worked closely with her old friend, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on the administration's big legislative win.
A veteran of the Clinton health-reform wars, DeParle brought institutional memory to the job as well as an understanding of the arcane nooks of government-funded health-insurance plans. She's an expert on Medicare and Medicaid, and helped the Obama administration expand those programs in pursuit of more universal coverage.
Since the Clinton years, she's has a series of plum posts in academia and the private sector, most recently as a managing director at a private-equity firm.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/nancy-ann-deparle/gIQAJqWx9O_topic.html
DeParle is no longer with the administration. She left for the world of private equity in August, joining the New York-based firm Consonance Capital Partners.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2013/11/07/tony-trenkle-the-healthcare-gov-official-who-stepped-down/
Part of success is knowing enough to get out before the shit hits the fan.
Obamacare architect Nancy-Ann DeParle returns to private equity
Nancy-Ann DeParle may have left the Obama White House last January, but she did not leave healthcare behind.
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Q: You recently rejoined the private equity world after a number of years working in the national healthcare policy arena. Why did you re-enter private equity and what are some of your investment goals with Consonance Capital Partners?
A: I was very happily working in private equity, helping to grow really interesting companies, when I got the call from the president to try and get health reform done. But I had a lot of fun (in private equity). One company we grew was in the managed care space, managing 60,000 Medicare Advantage patients and getting great results with them. Another was a hospital company that we built from the ground up, working with physicians and the community.
Working with the president was an incredible experience. Presidents have been trying to do this since Harry Truman, so you’d have to say the odds were long when I went there but I’m proud to say we got health reform done.
Then I stayed at the president’s request to get implementation up and running, and then I became the Deputy Chief of Staff of Policy. It was a very rich experience. But I was ready to get back to working with companies again, to working with management teams. I was fortunate enough to be able to rejoin three of my former partners. This seems like an incredible time to invest in good ideas in healthcare, but it’s not for the faint of heart.
Emphasis added -- wonder what her definition of "up and running" is?
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