Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is resigning six months after a disastrous rollout of President Barack Obama’s signature health law, according to administration sources.
On Friday, Obama will nominate Sylvia Mathews Burwell, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, to replace her.
Sebelius, 65, gave no hint of her imminent departure as she testified Thursday before a Senate panel, announcing that enrollment in Obamacare exchanges had surpassed 7.5 million — a figure that easily beat White House expectations. Still, the strong finish didn’t eclipse a start that Sebelius herself called a “debacle” when HealthCare.gov melted down on Oct. 1.
It took two costly months to repair, and in that time Republicans’ blistering criticism of Obamacare dominated the political narrative about the president’s program. People simply could not sign up.
Sebelius took responsibility for the flawed launch, and once the website was repaired — by a “tech surge” team dominated by White House appointees, not HHS — she traveled nonstop in the past few months to pitch enrollment in cities across the nation.
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Stuart Varney suggested that the phony enrollment numbers were the spur for this resignation and others suggest that this could provide some cover for Obama over next several months.
She thinks that if she leaves, she will not be prosecuted. She is a piece of lying trash. The spin is that she is leaving because obama care won. Read Karl Row’s WSJ article in either Tue/Wed and he has something different to say.
WH RT: ‘Kathleen Sebelius Is Resigning Because Obamacare Has Won’
Apparently winning is the primary goal of ObamaCare, which the White House ought to be calling the Affordable Care Act.
Let’s just hope Sibelius doesn’t get into web design.
It will be interesting to see who hires this deadbeat.
She got out just before the Lefty media began to turn on ObamaCare.
Huffington Post, no conservatives in any great numbers, ran a story about how REAL those ObamaCare horror stories are.
Turns out a POLICY really is NOT the same thing as CARE.
Anecdotal, you say.
Another:
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2014/04/11/Huffington-Post-Obamacare-Victims-Are-Real
Both women ended up paying out of pocket!
One had to pony up $500 a month for this non-care.
The other went ahead with her surgery and paid $16,000 through credit cards at 21% interest!