UPDATE 1-US Senate panel backs Obama nominee for Medicare/Medicaid chief

President Barack Obama's nominee to oversee Medicare and Medicaid won the backing of a key Senate panel on Tuesday, clearing the way for a vote by the full Senate that could make Marilyn Tavenner the programs' first official administrator since 2006.

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