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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hey, isn’t Flo’s contract coming to an end? if anyone can sell insurance, its Flo !!!
I guess once a project reaches a certain size, it doesn’t matter whether or not you actually delivered the desired results.
Anyone who Obama appointed to this position would have done exactly what Sebelius did, so I’m glad she was the one who had the job. It destroyed what could have been a viable candidacy for the U.S. Senate in Kansas.
Um, everyone?????
This woman is the one who facilitated the SHUTDOWN of all the DC monuments, including the WWII Memorial.
No, but they’re sure going out of their way to claim that Sebelius seeing a repeat of Lois’s example on the horizon had nothing to do with her leaving.
She will be replaced be another Rat all the same so no dif.
The new one who has been nominated is another looker.
Death panels, Part II, cometh.
Actuaries at the ready.
Obama is blaming everything on her.
1) It's always someone elses's fault
2) No one knew anything until it broke on the news and
3) Numbers magically appear to back obummer's claims.
This is cool:
instead of paying her the same as a man, they fired her..
They just keep shoveling that BS in DC, don't they?
Obama must control a big chunk of her retirement.
I’m surprised they didn’t just appoint the head of the IRS. That’s who’s in charge of our healthcare, anyway.
I wonder what her healthcare provider will be?
Does she get a special dispensation?
Did she get a job with OFA?
I hate beaurocRATS like this!
As Hannah Ahrendt wrote about the “just doing my job” Nazi beaurocRATS...”THE BANALITY OF EVIL “
” HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius Resigning (Confirmation)”
If Obama is really for equal pay for equal work, he should also resign
The sebatious cyst has been popped?
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