Only the right-leaning press, TV and blogs really covered the story of the Secretary Sebelius' “I don’t work for....” gaff
Sebelius’ glib and dismissive line is symptomatic of an ominous outlook in the “Transformative” Obama Presidency and Administration
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius delivered some remarks defending the Affordable Care Act about four days ago at a health care call center. At that time, she dismissed all the calls for her to resign from her position as Obama’s Secretary of Health and Human Services and point person on Obamacare, because they came from people who had no say in the matter ( See “Kathleen Sebelius: ‘I Don’t Work for’ the People Calling for Me to Resign” by Josh Feldman, 10-24-13, Mediaite [http://www.mediaite.com/tv/sebelius-i-dont-work-for-the-people-calling-for-me-to-resign/]). Her exact quote was this: “The majority of people calling for me to resign, I would say, are people I don’t work for and who do not want this program to work in the first place.”
The Sebelius' remark about not working for anybody who wanted her fired was largely not reported or commented upon in the main stream media ( See “Democrats Call to Delay Obamacare” 10/24/13, ABC News
[http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/kathleen-sebelius-obamacare-website-glitches-work-people-calling-20680345] [one of the few MSM outlets to cover it]). Even “Saturday Night Live” that did a Sebelius send-up as part of its opening last night did not use the “I don’t work for quote...” as part of the bit (See “‘Saturday Night Live’ Sends Up Healthcare.gov and Obamacare” by Christopher John Farley, 10/27/13, Wall Street Journal/ Speakeasy [http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2013/10/27/saturday-night-live-sends-up-healthcare-gov/] with video link to SNL Sebelius opening segment).
Some people say that a real Washington gaff is speaking the truth that nobody is supposed to hear or know about – in that context what Sebelius said is a gaff of profound significance. I put it to you that, in many ways the Sebelius gaff pairs up nicely with Romney’s 47% inconvenient truism, which many cite as the biggest candidate gaff of the 2012 Presidential Campaign.
It should be obvious that, if there is any good at all in Obamacare, it largely goes to certain people in the 47% that Romney identified as certain Obama voters, who “are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it” and non-payers of Federal Income Tax ( two separate groups, coincidently both being 47%, but mistakenly conflated in Romney’s speech – furthermore, some of the 47% of the income tax non-payers and even some of the government benefits recipients eventually did vote for Romney).
One of the “Big Lies” of Obamacare is that it is not a government provided medical care program, but is instead a governmental program of mandates and regulations for mostly private medical insurance. The Medicaid changes that are a major component of Obamacare ( a part of which was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court) are a government provided medical care program – usually described as a “Single Payer System.” During the first ten years of Obamacare, over a trillion dollars will go into the Medicaid component just to meet the Obamacare requirements – three quarters of a trillion dollars of that amount will come out of Medicare. In its own way this is a redistribution among Romney’s 47 percenters – largely from one government provided medical program to another – largely from the old to the young. There is also an ethnic and racial benefit shift as a result of that redistribution (you figure it out – but if you say anything about it you’ll be accused of something that most people think isn’t very nice).
The Sebelius remark about who she is or is not working-for not only helps clarify some of what Romney was referring to in his inconvenient 47% remark; it is also an admission by a key true-believing Obama operative about what the entire transformative Obama presidency is all about. It is all about only working for a certain percentage of the American people, a readily identifiable hard core of Obama supporters – and putting various subsidiary programs and policies into place to make that percentage an invincible majority of “Americans,” by whatever description or definition is necessary to make that majority permanent.
Kathleen Sebelius “I don’t work for...” gaff is also one of the early tolls in the death knell of our constitutional republican-democracy.
I heard Marty Golden loves Obamacare.
ReplyDeleteI really doubt that.
Delete...Maybe as an issue to use against his generic Democrat opponent next year ....
UPDATE: THE "IF IT'S NOT REGULATED -- IT'S NOT A MARKETPLACE" EDITION
ReplyDeleteHHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius testified in answer to a question by a Democratic Congressman that before Obamacare there was no marketplace for medical care insurance -- there was no regulation and people were out there on their own.
Interesting insight....