Posted on 04/10/2014 4:12:12 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius will announce Friday she is stepping down, ABC News has confirmed.
The president will nominate Sylvia Burwell, director of the Office of Management and Budget, to replace her.
Sebelius approached President Obama about a month ago and asked to step down after the health care sign-up numbers were released, two senior administration officials and a confidante of Sebelius' told ABC News.
The White House always worried about finding someone to win confirmation at HHS, but Burwell was overwhelmingly confirmed as budget director with a vote of 96-0 about a year ago.
Earlier today Sebelius was on Capitol Hill to announce that 400,000 additional people have chosen insurance plans through the Obamacare exchanges as of this week, raising the total number of enrollees to approximately 7.5 million.
“As of this week, 400,000 additional Americans have signed up and we expect that number to continue to grow,” Sebelius said at a Senate Finance Committee hearing Thursday.
Last week, the administration announced 7.1 million people had enrolled as of April 1.
Sebelius, a former governor of Kansas, was among Obama's earliest supporters back in 2008. Her endorsement -- over Hillary Clinton -- came at a critical time in his first race for the White House.
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and lets see how NBC/ABC/CNN and the rest try to spin this.
She is no longer stuck in her job and can pursue her dreams of being an artist, or a photographer, or a writer, or a sculptor.....
Local ABC news only gave maybe 30 seconds on the story. If it had been a Republican you would expect 5 minutes.
Nah, more like a coat made from the skin of aborted babies...maybe a purse and some shoes to match as well.
That is one vile individual who endorses and celebrates the murder of defenseless children.
She can dump that low buck $200k cabinet salary and go make some serious millions at a lobbying outfit or health care consulting company.
After letting her do the heavy lifting and take the flak on initiating Obamacare, Obama refused to even acknowledge Sebelius in his Mission Accomplished speech last week - talk about your war on women - I haven’t seen a female treated as callously since Teddy let Mary Jo die to try to save his political career - but Juan Williams has already started to try to rehabilitate the ‘rats, saying tonight that the GOP made her their “whipping-girl” on the so-called Affordable Care Act.....
remember, one just wanted to kill puppies...
hey, isnt there an island somewhere in the atlantic where all of the “Misfits” move to when they get fired out of DC?
Or opening an abortion clinic
Kathleen Sebelius: “My job here is done, Mr. President. What do you want me to F—K up next?”
Kathleen Sebelius: “Please don’t do this to me” (when asked if she was going to have ObamaCare herself)
Juan is color blind. If you’re not colored, he can’t see you.
“If it had been a Republican you would expect 5 minutes.”
Nah.
One would expect days and days and days until the Republican resigned.
IMHO
That would be Nantucket.
Sounds like the insurance company risk corridor bailouts are on the horizon...
What took her so long LOL!
Could be good troll
Hillary Clinton THE RING FOR 2016666 RINGGGGG LOL!
Its all part of the Obama/Dem narrative - it (the Obamacare problem) is not the problem, just the implementation; and that narrative is a crock of excrement. The HHS Secretary resignation is no more than her falling on her sword for her leader, to help maintain the false narrative about Obamacare, as if by removing the current HHS Secretary and approving a new one, the problem of Obamacare becomes “fixed”. That’s additional hogwash in the narrative. The problem IS the law and the “implementation issues” are actually a side issue.
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