WIKIMEDIA, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICESKathleen Sebelius, the recently embattled US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary, is stepping down from her post, administration officials announced yesterday (April 10). Sebelius began her tenure as the head of HHS in 2009 and in recent weeks has come under fire for the rocky rollout of the government website, www.healthcare.gov, designed as a means of enrolling for healthcare coverage under the Affordable Care Act, colloquially known as “Obamacare.”
President Barack Obama reportedly accepted Sebelius’s resignation earlier in the week. According to senior administration officials, Sebelius informed Obama in early March of her intention to step down after the open enrollment period for Obamacare drew to a close, which it did on March 31. “At that time, Secretary Sebelius told the president that she felt confident in the trajectory for enrollment and implementation of the Affordable Care Act, and that she believed that once open enrollment ended it would be the right time to transition the department to new leadership,” an official told The Wall Street Journal.
“Under Kathleen’s leadership, her team at HHS turned the corner, got [healthcare.gov] fixed, got the job done, and the final score speaks for itself,” Obama said during ...
