The release of the CBO report on the House health care bill is overshadowing this news:

By Robert Pear @ New York Times, March 13

WASHINGTON — The Senate on Monday confirmed Seema Verma, a health policy expert from Indiana, to lead efforts by the Trump administration to transform Medicaid, expand Medicare and upend the Affordable Care Act.

By a vote of 55 to 43, the Senate approved the nomination of Ms. Verma to be administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which spends more than $1 trillion a year on programs providing health care to more than one-third of all Americans.

Unlike most people who have held the job, Ms. Verma has extensive experience in Medicaid, a program that was expanded by former President Barack Obama’s health care law and now provides coverage to more than 70 million low-income people.

Ms. Verma was an architect of Indiana’s Medicaid program, widely seen as a model by conservatives, and worked closely with Vice President Mike Pence when he was the state’s governor. Indiana expanded Medicaid eligibility, but emphasized “personal responsibility.” That means that beneficiaries pay premiums, contribute to health savings accounts and receive incentives for healthy behavior [....]