HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius resigns
"WASHINGTON — After a difficult five years shepherding President Obama's signature health care law, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has tendered her resignation, according to two senior administration officials."
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius resigns
"WASHINGTON — After a difficult five years shepherding President Obama's signature health care law, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has tendered her resignation, according to two senior administration officials."
We should only hope that she is without a job and needs to sign up for Obamacare.
Let's see which Democrat flak is stupid enough to put their name forward as her replacement. Think Obama will be able to find one in his last 32 months? Maybe he'll issue an executive order declaring that a Secretary of HHS is not required for the next 2 and a half years.
Let's see which Democrat flak is stupid enough to put their name forward as her replacement. Think Obama will be able to find one in his last 32 months? Maybe he'll issue an executive order declaring that a Secretary of HHS is not required for the next 2 and a half years.
Is Obama actually required to fill federal postings?Let's see which Democrat flak is stupid enough to put their name forward as her replacement. Think Obama will be able to find one in his last 32 months? Maybe he'll issue an executive order declaring that a Secretary of HHS is not required for the next 2 and a half years.
Is Obama actually required to fill federal postings?
Obama Budget Director Sylvia Burwell is apparently going to replace the failure named Sebelius.
Should be an interesting confirmation hearing.
Considering the effort the Republicans put into obstructing and obfuscating PPACA, Kathleen Sebelius did a magnificent job.even though the Republicans did everything they could to stop them from getting it.She put millions of Americans on the road to health care
I love how conservatives define failure. In reality, conservatives suffer from disaster delusions.Obama Budget Director Sylvia Burwell is apparently going to replace the failure named Sebelius.
I love how conservatives define failure. In reality, conservatives suffer from disaster delusions.
Obamacare has exceeded predictions. The nonpartisan RAND Corporation released a study estimating “a net gain of 9.3 million in the number of American adults with health insurance coverage from September 2013 to mid-March 2014.” Some failure.
Even in Mitch McConnell's own state, Obamacare Cuts Kentucky's Uninsured Rate By 40 Percent. Some failure.
She's enrolled in Medicare.
I love how conservatives define failure. In reality, conservatives suffer from disaster delusions.
Obamacare has exceeded predictions. The nonpartisan RAND Corporation released a study estimating “a net gain of 9.3 million in the number of American adults with health insurance coverage from September 2013 to mid-March 2014.” Some failure.
Even in Mitch McConnell's own state, Obamacare Cuts Kentucky's Uninsured Rate By 40 Percent. Some failure.
I love how conservatives define failure. In reality, conservatives suffer from disaster delusions.
Obamacare has exceeded predictions. The nonpartisan RAND Corporation released a study estimating “a net gain of 9.3 million in the number of American adults with health insurance coverage from September 2013 to mid-March 2014.” Some failure.
Even in Mitch McConnell's own state, Obamacare Cuts Kentucky's Uninsured Rate By 40 Percent. Some failure.
Should be an interesting confirmation hearing.
Could Shutdown Skeletons Haunt Sylvia Burwell?Obama’s nominee to succeed Kathleen Sebelius played a key role in closing Washington’s monuments—a still-bitter issue for Republicans and their base.
The nomination of Sylvia Burwell to succeed Kathleen Sebelius as secretary of Health and Human Services could lead to the reopening of a fiercely divisive issue that dominated the news in the fall of 2013. Not healthcare.gov, but the government shutdown.
As director of the Office of Management and Budget, Burwell was the individual who sent out the memo on the eve of the October 1 deadline for Congress to fund the government, saying officials should “now execute plans for an orderly shutdown due to the absence of appropriations.” At the time, the shutdown sparked huge controversy among conservatives, who were particularly outraged that monuments on the Washington Mall, including the World War II Memorial were closed during the shutdown. While the GOP suffered grievously in national polls during the shutdown, brought upon by a refusal by Republicans to pass any budget that funded the Affordable Care Act, some on the right used it as opportunity to flaunt their conservative bona fides.
Burwell’s nomination could lead to a return to this debate and reopening of arguments about an event once thought long consigned to the past. It adds another complication to confirmation hearings in which Republicans, only six months before midterm elections, will be looking to score political points criticizing the Affordable Care Act. While some of the conservative base may be still deeply outraged about the closing of the World War II Memorial to veterans during the shutdown, every mention of the shutdown takes the GOP away from its core message of fighting Obamacare and on to an issue that caused Republicans huge political damage. The question is whether any Republican senators will take the bait.
Is Obama actually required to fill federal postings?
"Required"? That depends on how you interpret required...
My numbers might be off a little but they are very close...
didn't the CBO say that the exchanges would enroll (real enroll, not Obama's definition) 7 million new insureds with almost all of them being previously uninusred? What did we get isntead? According to the Rand study, 1.x million newly insured through the exchange - extrapolated to 2.5 million when accounting for the surge. It's a huge sucess, I am sure!
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Yes, they did expect a higher percentage of previously uninsureds becoming insured on the exchange. All in (exchange + medicaid + under 26 now on mom&dad's plan), however, in its first year, Obamacare insured 9.5-10.0 million previously uninsureds and got them insurance. That is in spite of the Republican best efforts to sabotage the thing by promoting the idea it was a failure; keeping states from expanding Medicaid and keeping states from establishing their own exchanges.
The Congressional Budget Office originally projected 7 million people would sign up during the six-month open enrollment period, but it scaled back that prediction to 6 million following HealthCare.gov’s highly troubled launch last fall. The CBO also predicted that 8 million more Americans will enroll in Medicaid this year.
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