Kathleen Sebelius Quotes
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Global health issues remind us - perhaps more than any other issue - that we are all children of the same extended family.
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But wishing our Kansas soldiers 'God speed' is not enough. We need to comfort, care for, and protect their families. And we should ease the financial burdens that these families often face.
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The men and women who serve this great nation, whether they are stationed in Iraq, Fort Riley, or the Korean Peninsula, or they serve us at home as our community first responders, serve because they believe in America.
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American research and resources have literally changed the face of humanity, by tackling deadly and once-deadly diseases.
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The Democratic plan in the 'Affordable Care Act' has, I would say, more government support, more government regulation around trying to protect the finances of individuals, trying to protect people who had pre-existing conditions, making sure that they could actually be in an insurance market and not set off to the side.
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But the dollars spent on economic incentives and new investment strategies are wasted unless we seriously address the two most important economic issues in Kansas: education and health care.
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Insurance companies can no longer refuse to cover Americans with pre-existing conditions. That's what change looks like.
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The way the law is written, people who are under 250 percent of poverty, who have a marketplace plan, also are eligible to have some of their deductible and co-pay expenses paid through cost-sharing. Insurance companies basically front the money and are reimbursed by the federal government, by HHS.
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I've spent my career fighting the worst practices of insurance companies.
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In many ways, human health is the great global connector.
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If your voices are not heard, you can be sure that many others will be - in particular those who are paid to present a point of view, and often do it most effectively.
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Being a mother is no longer a liability, and being a woman is no longer a pre-existing condition! That's what change looks like.
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I know how tough it is to stand up to powerful forces that prey on consumers.
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From 1965 to 1967, my dad, Jack Gilligan, served in Congress and helped pass landmark laws like the Voting Rights Act.
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If you're self-employed, between jobs, or can't get insurance through work, you'll have access to affordable health insurance as good as Congressman Paul Ryan's.
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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.
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A healthy state encourages many voices - and lots of listening.
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There's a digital revolution taking place both in and out of government in favor of open-sourced data, innovation, and collaboration.
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Republican House members, including Tom Price, when he was still in the Republican House, sued HHS, suggesting that payment to insurance companies for cost-sharing exceeded the authority of HHS. That case was basically withdrawn when President Trump was elected, in hopes that the Affordable Care Act would be repealed - but we're back to the law.
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The essence of good government is trust.
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To me, part of the magic of this era is that the very same innovations, discoveries, and technologies that are allowing us to live longer, healthier lives are also creating a healthier economy.
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There are people in this country who have waited for decades for affordable health coverage for themselves and their families.
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General Motors spends more on health care than steel.
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I was governor of Kansas when Mitt Romney was governor of Massachusetts.