Trusting that August was still a good month to go back into the water, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today switched from her “public option: not essential” belly flop on Sunday back to supporting the President. Noted Talk Radio News Service today,
Speaking at the US Administration on Aging’s annual Senior Medicare Patrol (SMP) conference, Secretary Sebelius said that her comment Sunday that the public option was “not an essential element” of health care reform, was misrepresented by the media.“All I can tell you is that Sunday must have been a very slow news day, because here’s the bottom line: absolutely nothing has changed,” she said. “We continue to support the public option that will help lower costs, give American consumers more choice and keep private insurers honest.”
The Secretary went on to address the scare tactics that she said opponents of health care reform were using in order to frighten the elderly into not supporting the administrations’ proposed changes.
I would suspect that the elderly are most likely frightened by the on again, off again flip-flopping the Obama administration is doing over this issue. Sebelius is no file clerk spending her golden years in the basement of HHS. She’s the Secretary, for Pete’s sake. Can’t we do any better?
