Seema Verma, 50, presented his resignation to President Donald Trump on Thursday (Archive)
Washington:
Seema Verma, one of the most senior Indian women in the Trump administration, resigned from her health care position, days before Joe Biden took office as the next president of the United States.
Ms. Verma, 50, presented her resignation to President Donald Trump on Thursday as Administrator for Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, a position she has served in the Trump administration for the past four years. She was one of Trump’s closest confidants on health issues.
She was also appointed by Trump in May last year as a key member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, made up of U.S. President Donald Trump, to fight the deadly disease.
“As the Trump administration comes to an end, I have presented my official resignation and I am preparing to hand over the keys to the next administrator next week,” she said in a tweet on Friday.
In her three-page resignation letter she posted on Twitter, she said: “Taken in their entirety, the actions of the CMS over the past four years will revolutionize health for future generations and transform health for all American patients. They represent a real turning point and will leave a lasting mark on our country. “” Serving the American people with the talented and dedicated CMS team for almost four years has been an honor for which I will always be grateful, “she said as she listed CMS’s achievements. over the past four years.
His resignation will take effect on January 20, the day of Biden’s inauguration as the 46th president of the United States.
She is the oldest administrator in CMS history.
Mrs. Verma was born in the United States. But his parents migrated from Punjab to the United States. Her husband, also a doctor, is originally from Patna, Bihar.
She said the CMS never wavered in its eagerness to challenge a failed status quo and, from the beginning, a problem-solving culture has permeated this government.
“This culture enabled me to think creatively and act boldly in shaping the agency’s agenda, confident that no good idea would be shelved because it upsets the apple cart or makes the wrong interest group unhappy.
“For the lasting benefit of our country, you have never wavered in this determination to reorient the health system to those who should have been the focus all the time: patients,” she said.
Ms. Verma visited India a few years ago.
“It was very important for me to share India with my children too. I wanted them to see where they came from and meet many of their relatives,” she said, adding that modern communication tools have narrowed the gaps.
“In the past, we used to try to go over the summer, over the years it gets more and more difficult, but I really appreciate that technology has made it so much easier,” she told PTI in an interview in June 2019.
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