Hillary's former policy director - Neera Tanden - joins Team Obama

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Hillary Clinton's former policy director, Neera Tanden, will start next week in Chicago as Barack Obama's director of domestic policy, reporting to policy director Heather Higginbottom, a source familiar with the plans said.

Tanden is the most senior Clinton loyalist to join Obama, a close, longtime aide whose move is not seen in Hillaryland as a defection — as some viewed the early decision of departed campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle — but as a natural element of the shift to the general election.

She was a key architect of, among other things, Clinton's health care plan, whose more aggressive push for universal coverage through mandates was probably the key domestic policy difference between the Democrats.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0608/Tanden_signs_on.html