KATHLEEN SEBELIUS, HERO

The TV talking heads across the nation are shaking with excitement; HHS #Selelius resigns. #Rachael Maddow explained it best when she explained that was shocked that such a thing could happen, in her words, “the White house is snatching defeat out of the jaws of victory.” She is sure the right wing will attack mercilessly, as they are prone to do, to anything—and I mean anything—that occurs in #President Obama’s administration but especially to the hated Obamacare. She is right; they will attack; it will just take a few days for the hate machine to gear up because they have not been able to wound her; there is no blood in the water so they have to create some—that takes time.  

Secretary Kathleen Sebelius was responsible for planting the flag on top of the huge, out of control health care problem in the Untied States of America. I look at what she did as heroic and deserving of the respect of all Americans. Our congress created a policy to solve a festering problem created by the free market system in what we claim is the most advanced society in the world. Capitalism is great and an absolute requirement for countries to excel. What is great in our nation is that we recognize that there are things that the people must do without an uncontrolled profit motive: educations, national defense, prisons, and among other things, healthcare. Congress compromised and allowed the government to control the healthcare market by insurance reform; the best way would have been a direct-payer system; however, that wasn’t to be. Once Congress formed the policy, the president turned the responsibility for implementing it was turned over the Sebelius.

Congratulations Kathleen Sebelius! You did it. She charged up the side of that mountain and planted the American flag on top where is will proudly wave for along long time. What she did made me think of mount Seribachi on Iwo Jima. She did not do it alone; she had a group of supports; a team. Caves and “Fox” holes covered the mountainside filled with people who were willing to die, and let others die, rather than see the government interfere in private enterprise.

In 1945, when Iwo Jima happened, a terrible controversy surrounded the raising of that flag and over the years it was replace time after time but it was still there. When I was there in 1953, eight years later, I could not see the flag from my ship but I knew it had been there even if I could not see it; actually, the flag is no longer there. Japan took control over the island in 1968. What was there will remain in the hearts and minds of the American people. Nothing can change that because it was the right thing to do. Thank you Congress for the policy and thank you President Obama for caring for the “all” of the American people but especially think you Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; you are truly a veteran of a hard fought but on going war.   

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