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
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.
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.
I think one of the most underreported and untouted benefits of the Affordable Care Act is the real investments we are finally making in this country in prevention.
It is encouraging to see major companies like DHL expand and invest in Kansas, ... With this new investment in our state, our community will benefit by the creation of new jobs and increased revenue to the tax base.
We have an opportunity to create a future where we are actually encouraging providers to keep people away from acute care, whenever possible.
It takes a community-wide effort, and that's what we've seen in both of these communities. Businesses working with schools, volunteers working with local leaders; these are the partnerships that make our communities stronger and healthier,
What is potentially harmful about this whole situation is that people lose faith in the fact that the government can be a protector, ... I'm hopeful that we can use this as an opportunity to demand more of government.
A portion of the proceeds from the sale of the commemorative coin sets today will be used to help children who are victims of Hurricane Katrina. There are thousands of kids who have been affected by the hurricane, and as we welcome some of them to Kansas, we want to let all of them know they are in our hearts and prayers,
so we don't, after the fact, cover up abuse of children.
More than five million seniors have already saved money on their prescription drugs, and almost 33 million have benefited from free preventive services. The president cracked down hard on Medicare and health care fraud, recovering a record-breaking $10.7 billion over the last three years, protecting our seniors. That's what change looks like.
Let's think of new opportunities, not past constraints, as we visualize the future of the state that we call home.
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.