|
Badger, Doug
Staff director of the Senate Republican Policy Committee.
Chief of Staff to Majority Whip U.S. Sen. Don Nickles (R-Okla)
Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under President Reagan.
Director of the Social Security Administration's Office of Legislative and Regulatory Policy. (1)
In 1999 he became a healthcare lobbyist for Ernst & Young, representing a range of corporations including Pfizer. (2)
In 2002 he was appointed Special Assistant on economic policy to U.S. President Bush. As a member of the National Economic Council staff, Mr. Badger assumed senior health policy coordination responsibilities, (3) including negotiations with Congress on the Medicare bill. (4)
Endnotes:
(1) Modernhealthcare.com at http://www.modernhealthcare.com/page.cms?pageId=395 , accessed Dec 17, 2004
(2) Modernhealthcare.com at http://www.modernhealthcare.com/page.cms?pageId=395 , accessed Dec 17, 2004
(3) White House news release, Oct 4, 2002 at http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/10/20021004-2.html
(4) Pringle, Evelyn. $130 billion dollar Medicare rip-off. Online Journal, Oct 27, 2004. See also Goldstein, Amy. Democrats Ask Bush Aides to Explain Role on Medicare Cost. Washington Post, Mar 20, 2004.
|
