Actual NYT Headline: "Sebelius Resigns After Troubles Over Health Care Site"

[kpete]

Actual NYT headline: “Sebelius resigns after troubles over health site”
Why not, “Sebelius resigns after 13.5 million insured”?

A rather odd headline in the New York Times story about Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius announcing her resignation last night.

“Sebelius Resigns After Troubles Over Health Site.”

Yes. Troubles from, you know, seven months ago.

While we’re at it, I suppose Sebelius also resigned after Russia invaded and annexed Crimea, and after that Juan Pablo jerk shafted Nikki (never trust the cute ones).

http://americablog.com/2014/04/actual-nyt-headline-sebelius-resigns-troubles-health-site.html

[JoePhilly]

1. Well, Obama lied ... said 7 million, actual was 7.1 million. She had to go!

[Bandit]

2. I really wonder what is up with this resignation. Only one week ago she said in an interview

that she had no plans to resign and in fact was looking forward to this next year.. Something must have happened this week to change things so.

[FarCenter]

3. She probably looked at all the systems left to do and decided to leave

What is the status of the accounting software to pay the insurance companies only the subsidies that are correct for each subscriber?

How about the systems for employer provided insurance and all the features whose deadlines have been pushed back?

Are all the interfaces with IRS up in order to support 2014 tax filings and to claw back excess subsidies from taxpayers?

[spanone]

4. that's our 'liberal' media in a nutshell

[cthulu2016]

5. Bush leaves office after destruction of World Trade Center

[taught_me_patience]

6. She sucked and, imho was incompetent

She was in way over her head and should have resigned long ago.

[librechik]

7. yeah, that's the sneaky way they framed it. Most presidential officials quit in the second term

and Sebelius bravely stuck around to receive the flak of the rollout/ She deserves a medal.

[Zorra]

8. It's very possible that the truth is that her resignation is primarily the product

the problems with the site.

I have pretty good insurance now, relatively speaking, because within the framework of the corrupt and deceitful practices of the private health insurance industry, getting claims accepted easily, or even getting to speak with a company representative on the phone without being put on hold for an hour, is often a crapshoot.

However, because of my unprecedented 63 day struggle through the idiotic and uncoordinated bureaucratic and technical disaster that Healthcare.gov opened as, I believe that it is a good idea that Secretary Sebelius resign; I wish her well.

Here are my thoughts from Oct 13, 2013:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023823162

Yeh, I'm pleased that so many signed up, and am fervently hoping that the Democratic party plays this into a House majority in November. But this does not excuse the extremely poor choices of systems for identification verification, ie, choosing a private RW corporation to check our identities, WTF? and the hiring of other inefficient and/or corrupt hired private contractors involved in the process, indicates that there was either cronyism or an extreme naivete that led to the inadequate planning and strict government oversight of all aspects of Healthcare.gov.

I'm still somewhat bitter over the frustrating struggle I had trying to get insurance, and if I had the foresight to record and put on video the complete debacle, I probably could have won an Academy Award for Best Comic Documentary, if there is such a thing.