Kathleen Sebelius
Kathleen Sebelius
Kathleen Sebeliusis an American politician who served as the 21st United States Secretary of Health and Human Services from 2009 until 2014. Previously, she was Governor of Kansas from 2003 to 2009, the second woman to hold that office. She is a member of the Democratic Party. Sebelius was the Democratic respondent to the 2008 State of the Union address and is chair-emerita of the Democratic Governors Association. On April 10, 2014, Sebelius announced her resignation as Secretary of Health...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth15 May 1948
CityCincinnati, OH
CountryUnited States of America
Global health issues remind us - perhaps more than any other issue - that we are all children of the same extended family.
I've spent my career fighting the worst practices of insurance companies.
I was governor of Kansas when Mitt Romney was governor of Massachusetts.
American research and resources have literally changed the face of humanity, by tackling deadly and once-deadly diseases.
What we've been finding is that when you remove the barriers to innovation, you can actually hold costs down while lifting entrepreneurs up and getting better health results.
We've been finding that when you empower engineers, scientists, and coders, they respond by creating new tools to empower physicians, patients, and parents.
I know how tough it is to stand up to powerful forces that prey on consumers.
If your voices are not heard, you can be sure that many others will be - in particular those who are paid to present a point of view, and often do it most effectively.
While closing our innovation gaps won't solve all our problems, we have some very real opportunities to improve the quality of care that's delivered to millions of Americans.
In many ways, human health is the great global connector.
And under Obamacare, insurance companies can no longer discriminate against women. Before, some wouldn't cover women's most basic needs, like contraception and maternity care, but would still charge us up to 50 percent more than men - for a worse plan.
With two of our state's symbols, the buffalo and the sunflower, the Kansas quarter celebrates our state's past and is a representation of the heritage and traditions of our state.
There's a digital revolution taking place both in and out of government in favor of open-sourced data, innovation, and collaboration.
But for us Democrats, Obamacare is a badge of honor. Because no matter who you are, what stage of life you're in, this law is a good thing.