Ms Sebelius Keep Your Hands Off of My Patients

Dr. Meg Meeker

It’s time for Kathleen Sebelius to go home.

After taking a whopping one sixth of the national budget to implement a program that: no one understood, was passed in secret, was poorly written (we think, but who, aside from Greta Van Susteran has actually read the thing?), deceptive in premise (“we must do this because the poor in America have no care”; odd, I’ve seen thousands over the years), and obscenely wasteful (the few first hundred million couldn’t even get the program’s website to work correctly), it’s time for her to be honorable. Go home.

The great irony here is that if Ms. Sebelius were working for any company other than the American government, she would have been fired the day the first citizen tried to log on to sign up for health insurance and couldn’t.
Can you imagine an executive working for Bill Gates, taking one sixth of the Microsoft budget, creating a program that couldn’t even perform for one day, and staying with the company—even if she pleaded with Mr. Gates, “I’m so sorry to have wasted hundreds of millions of dollars on a program that won’t work, sir, but can I have another shot at it?”

This would…

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