Kathleen Sebelius Quotes
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.
Sebelius, Kathleen. "Remarks at Health Datapalooza." 5 June 2012, Washington, D.C. Address.
The willingness to fail with a policy or program is very rare amongst politicians and almost nil with government bureaucrats. For the latter the main reason is Congress which pillories the Civil Servants or their and their political bosses for any failure. So nothing innovative gets tried in most administrations. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who went to the people with the intention to try. many different things and would fail with many, was tolerated by a Congress which he dominated and a public that was so desparate as a result of Hoover’s trying nothing to ameliorate the Great Depression that they were willing to accept some failures. And indeed there were a number of failures, some very large and significant. But there were also many successes and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, experiments, failures and all was the most popular President in American history and was elected to 4 terms before his death.
Kathleen Sebelius is an American businesswoman and politician who served as the 21st United States Secretary of Health and Human Services from 2009 until 2014. As Secretary of Health and Human Services, Sebelius was instrumental in overseeing the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Before becoming Secretary, she served as the 44th 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 (she was its first female chair). She is CEO of Sebelius Resources LLC.
