Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’ mammoth responsibility of overseeing the implementation of health care reform earned her 23rd place on the new Forbes list of the World’s 100 Most Powerful Women, after No. 21 Angelina Jolie and No. 22 Katie Couric. The magazine said of the 62-year-old former Kansas governor: “Responsible for roughly 1,300 provisions in the law, she will decide the smallest details, such as distributing wellness grants to small businesses, to the largest, like defining what constitutes ‘essential’ health care. She has some help; the agency’s budget was boosted to $911 billion in 2011, an increase of $51 billion from the previous year.” Another former Kansan, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. chairwoman Sheila Bair, came in at No. 15.
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