Sebelius: Obamacare Opponents Are Like Those Who Opposed Civil Rights Legislation

BIG HEALTH REPORT.COM ^ | JULY 17, 2013 | By Susan Jones

[onyx]

Addressing the annual NAACP convention in Orlando, Fla., Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said that opponents of Obamacare are the same kind of people who opposed civil rights legislation in the 1960s.

Her comments on Tuesday came one day before the Republican-led House votes to delay key provisions of the law.

“The Affordable Care Act is the most powerful law for reducing health disparities since Medicare and Medicaid were created in 1965, the same year the Voting Rights Act was also enacted,” Sebelius said. “That significance hits especially close to home. My father was a congressman from Cincinnati who voted for each of those critical civil rights laws, and who represented a district near where the late Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth lived and preached.

“The same arguments against change, the same fear and misinformation that opponents used then are the same ones opponents are spreading now. ‘This won’t work,’ ‘Slow down,’ ‘Let’s wait,’ they say.

“But history shows that upholding our founding principles demands continuous work toward a more perfect union…And it requires the kind of work that the NAACP has done for more than a century to move us forward.

“You showed it in the fight against lynching and the fight for desegregation. You showed it by ensuring inalienable rights are secured in the courtroom and at the ballot box. And you showed it by supporting a health law 100 years in the making.

[onyx]

^5

[stephenjohnbanker]

” ...more like those that opposed communism.”

Exactly!

[Brown Deer]

My father was a congressman from Cincinnati who voted for each of those critical civil rights laws...

Her father, Jack Gilligan could not have voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964, since he did not become a U.S. Congressman until 1965!

[Coldwater Creek]

what I want to know is how many of y'all have had your premium's cut in half, and have gotten your 100.00 dollar rebate. Obama is acting like that rebate is going to really increase the 1%.

[A_Former_Democrat]

Anglo Americans . . . when are you going to get tired of this BS?

[DustyMoment]

Ah, the pandering to the masses . . . . . . by the massuhs!

[VanDeKoik]

The Unions don’t like it either.

Oops.

[Coldwater Creek]

BRILLIANT!

[mass55th]

"So, if a black man (me) oppose Obamacare, what does that make me?"

As Sharpton and others would say: you're not black enough.

[SaxxonWoods]

Her statement means she has no good arguments against the critcisms of this boondoggle.

It’s a sign of weakness.

[al_c]

I don't type this very often, but this one deserves it ...

WTF???!!!

[onyx]

Yep!

[WXRGina]

The Affordable Care Act is the most powerful law for reducing health disparities...

She said a mouthful there. "Reducing health disparities" by making us all equally unable to afford health insurance. What a witch!

[elpadre]

she is ignorant of congressional history. Most of those who oposed civil rights were democrats

[Don Corleone]

The Marxists are pulling out ALL the stops.

[Gabrial]

That’s a horrible thing to wish upon maggots.

[Gabrial]

“Her father, Jack Gilligan could not have voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964, since he did not become a U.S. Congressman until 1965!”

Facts? We don’t need no stink’in facts! We are lying liars telling lies! What do we need with facts??? Facts just get in the way!!!

[Brown Deer]

If it wasn’t for her father, 0bama wouldn’t be here today. ;-)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1992602/posts

[230FMJ]

Ripe for re-education camp, Comrade! /s

[jsanders2001]

And look where it got us...