OPM Exec Becomes Medicare Maven

Great piece in the New York Times today about Abby Block, a career federal executive who ran the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program before being recruited to help manage the implementation of the new Medicare prescription drug benefit. Best part:

Ms. Block, a 75-year-old civil servant, is director of the Center for Beneficiary Choices at the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. While some officials toured the country as cheerleaders for the drug benefit, Ms. Block stayed at her desk in Washington and made it work.

In the story, everybody from Block's former bosses at OPM to the head of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association raves about her accomplishments.