Kathleen Sebelius has a full plate with implementing health-care reform

proud2BlibKansan

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Sun Aug-08-10 01:00 AM
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Kathleen Sebelius has a full plate with implementing health-care reform

Forty-five years ago, U.S. Rep. John J. Gilligan cast one of the 307 House votes that created Medicare and Medicaid.

That piece of �Great Society� legislation changed the delivery of health care in America.

Now Gilligan�s daughter, Kathleen Sebelius, the health and human services secretary, is the general in charge of another sweeping change in the health care system.

Implementing the health-care reform bill passed earlier this year makes her one of the most powerful bureaucrats in the country, with one of the toughest jobs.

How important is her role?

Forbes magazine last year ranked her the 57th-most powerful woman in the world.

Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/2010/08/07/2135851/kathleen-sebelius-has-a-full-plate.html#ixzz0vzWiHubn

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DFLforever

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Sun Aug-08-10 01:20 AM
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1. If anyone can do it, I think it's she.

She oozes competence.

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proud2BlibKansan

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Sun Aug-08-10 01:22 AM
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2. We sure miss her here in Kansas

She was a great governor.

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DFLforever

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Sun Aug-08-10 01:25 AM
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4. I can understand that.

She's the Cabinet choice I was most pleased with.

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leftstreet

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Sun Aug-08-10 01:25 AM
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3. How hard can it be to sign legislation forcing us to purchase medical insurance?

Not to disrespect Ms Sebelius, but c'mon.

:shrug:

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DFLforever

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Sun Aug-08-10 01:27 AM
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5. You're joking, right.

Or maybe you don't know anything about government.

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leftstreet

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Sun Aug-08-10 01:29 AM
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6. No, not at all

I don't see how it will be difficult to implement health insurance reform.

It's going to be mandatory.

:shrug:

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proud2BlibKansan

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Sun Aug-08-10 01:47 AM
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8. Well for starters, she wasn't responsible for signing the legislation

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saracat

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Sun Aug-08-10 01:46 AM
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7. There is no "Heath Care Reform" . There is mandated insurance

Health care has not been reformed at all. The same incompetents are free to mis prescribe, misdiagnose and overdose as they ever were. Health care is really not very good in this country in general. Beats me why we don't reform it.

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area51

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Sun Aug-08-10 03:50 AM
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9. +1

Or to put it another way, the same for-profit, basically unregulated serial-killer insurance agencies will be free to delay and deny claims and kill people. It's what agencies are in business for -- to make money by killing people.

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Vinca

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Sun Aug-08-10 06:41 AM
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10. Exactly. If it was health care reform it might be Medicare opened up for all.

Medicare, by the way, was up and running within months of LBJ signing it. If health care reform had happened as opposed to health insurance reform, millions of people would be within months of medical care, not years. I'm happy for the people who will actually benefit from the law should they live long enough (those poor enough to qualify for Medicaid) and the ones who can now purchase insurance (if they can afford it), but the real reform winners are big insurance.

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