Valeria Habib

USGOV

22/10/13

Sebelius Thrust into Firestorm on Exchanges

This new is about Republicans are demanding the resignation of Kathleen Sebelius the secretary of Obama’s health reform because of the flaws that the website has had insurance exchange which she is responsible. Here are questions about how deeply she was involved in the development of the troubled HealthCare.gov Web site and whether she saw the problems coming. Many Republicans see her as a person incompetent; for example, Joe Pitt a republican of Pennsylvania attacks that she is not ready and accuses her of she did not see coming the consequences. He said ad I quote: “Why would she mislead us so shortly before the rollout, when they were obviously not prepared and are still not prepared, and it’s going to take a long time to fix the problem? We want to know how long she thinks it is going to take.” Statements like these there are many, however its defenders Democrats mentioned that she has the support of the president, and that she is trained for her job. 

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/23/us/politics/sebelius-thrust-into-firestorm-on-exchanges.html?pagewanted=1&_r=0&ref=politics

It’s important to mention that after the bill became law in 2010, she began holding weekly meetings on a range of thorny regulatory and policy issues, like how to define the “essential health benefits” provided by insurance plans or what to do about a possible shortage of primary care doctors. 

It is not Ms. Sebelius’ first brush with controversy. A federal judge once criticized her over the administration’s decision to restrict morning-after contraceptive pills to teenage girls, calling it a “bad faith, politically motivated decision of Secretary Sebelius,” and she also faced heavy scrutiny from Republicans for her fund-raising work for Enroll America, a group promoting the health law.

I’m agree with republicans positions, because if she was involve with the troubled web site, she should resign. But it will not happen because they ran it up the flagpole all the way to the Supreme Court and “the law is still standing, and so is she”

As we see in the other controversy she had, she will not resign because she is a strong woman and she has the Obama’s support, so she will still work to implement the Affordable Care Act.

Therefore, if she cannot do her job right, she should be replaced even if she has the Obama’s support or all the job and promotion she had done about the Affordable Care Act.

We could say that the Obamacare will benefit a lot of people in needs, but we know it will not, it will help the people who have a highly income, and American citizens only, the diffusion Sebelius is doing about the law is just proposing the benefits without mentioning the contras omitting whom actually will benefit. Therefore, I see it as a whim of Obama and Sebelius because United States provides its citizens with health insurance "free", and Obamacare, there will be more than private insurance.