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First Lady Steps Into Pol­icy Spot­light in Debate on Health Care

WASHINGTON — She has become one of the Obama administration’s most vis­i­ble sur­ro­gates on health care, announc­ing the release of $851 mil­lion in fed­eral financ­ing for health clin­ics, call­ing for tougher nutri­tional stan­dards in the government’s school lunch pro­gram and urg­ing Democ­rats to rally around the president’s efforts to revamp health care.

The high-profile emis­sary? Not Kath­leen Sebe­lius, the health and human ser­vices sec­re­tary, or Nancy-Ann DeParle, the White House health pol­icy adviser. It is the first lady, Michelle Obama.

“We’re at a crit­i­cal junc­ture in the debate about health care in this coun­try,” Mrs. Obama said at a clinic here in June. “The cur­rent sys­tem is eco­nom­i­cally unsus­tain­able, and I don’t have to tell any of you that. And despite hav­ing the most expen­sive health care sys­tem in the world, we’re not nec­es­sar­ily health­ier for it.”

After sev­eral months of focus­ing on her fam­ily, her gar­den and inspir­ing young peo­ple, Mrs. Obama is step­ping into more wonk­ish ter­rain. She is tough­en­ing her mes­sage and talk­ing more openly about influ­enc­ing pub­lic pol­icy as she works to inte­grate her efforts more closely with those of pol­icy mak­ers in the West Wing.

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