Posted on 04/10/2014 8:38:55 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Obamacare has won. And that's why Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius can resign.
Calls for Sebelius's resignation were almost constant after Obamacare's catastrophic launch. The problem wasn't just that Sebelius had presided over the construction of a fantastically expensive web site that flatly didn't work. It was that she didn't know healthcare.gov was going to instantly, systemically fail. And so the White House didn't know that healthcare.gov was going to instantly, systemically fail. The demands that Sebelius to step down or be fired were as deafening inside the building as outside of it.
But President Obama refused. As National Journal's Major Garrett reported, Obama believes that "scaring people with a ceremonial firing deepens fear, turns allies against one another, makes them risk-averse, and saps productivity." Moreover, there was too much to be done to fire one of the few people who knew how to finish the job. Sebelius would stay. The White House wouldn't panic in ways that made it harder to save the law.
The evidence has piled up in recent weeks that the strategy worked. Obamacare's first year, despite a truly horrific start, was a success. More than 7 million people look to have signed up for health insurance through the exchanges. Millions more have signed up through Medicaid. And millions beyond that have signed up for insurance through their employers.
Healthcare.gov isn't perfect, but it works. We don't yet know how many young people signed up in March, but it's clear that there are enough of them to keep premiums stable in 2015. It's clear that insurers are going to stick with the program in 2015, and compete hard to sign up next year's wave of young, healthy applicants.
Even Republicans committed to the law's repeal are admitting that the law is back on its expected track. "The rollout made Obamacare's collapse seem like a possibility," wrote Ramesh Ponnuru at Bloomberg View. But "now that it's resolved, the debate continues basically along the same lines that everyone expected a year ago. The law will continue to be implemented, with the administration making whatever revisions it thinks necessary."
The White House says Sebelius notified the President in March that "she felt confident in the trajectory for enrollment and implementation," and that once open enrollment ended, "it would be the right time to transition the Department to new leadership."
In other words, the law has won its survival. The Obama administration can exhale. Personnel changes can be made. A new team led by Office of Management and Budget Director Sylvia Matthews Burwell, who the White House calls a proven manager can be brought in to continue to improve the law. And Sebelius can leave with her head held high. She can leave with the law she helped build looking, shockingly, like a success.
I don't think it's just you. I don't know what those comma like things are on her face. Is it just the ugly coming out?
Looks like an overhead light being refracted thru the lenses of her glasses.
“Looks like an overhead light being refracted thru the lenses of her glasses.”
Thereby exposing her true appearance.
Ezra, the most telling factoid to prove you are delusional, is that ,while Obama stood in the rose Garden lying about the enrollment numbers , Sibelius was nowhere to be seen. In the Soviet Union, you always looked for who was on the stand at the May Day parade to see who had been purged. Not surprisingly the U.S. now has to play by the same rules.
Obamacare and Obama supporters such as Klein have had to create alternative realities in their mind in order to protect what they believe. What they believe doesn't work in the real world but they think if they just write their alt. reality on paper and call it journalism,then it will be so
Right you are, Okie. I had to enlarge the photo to make it out. I’m surprised the media used that pic of her since it literally shows her in a bad light.
I meant to ping you to post 66, azishot. It was lighting and her glasses causing the problem.
Can the president make "whatever revisions it thinks necessary" to an existing law?
I think this is not a resignation.
It is changing riders on the same horse.
Kathleen’s job was to get o’care in place.
Now an unknown will come in to start the enforcement.
KS gets promoted and walks away.
Part of the plan.
True, however, it is the returning Christ who does that; not the humans who dwell under Satan's thumb in the interim. Evil will continue to prevail and keep on gaining until then. God didn't/doesn't lie.
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