Dive Brief:
- HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius will resign from her role as top health official in the US and Obama cabinet member.
- According to politics newspaper The Hill, Obama intends to replace Sebelius with Sylvia Burwell, director of the Office of Management and Budget.
- Sebelius is leaving in the wake of the rollout of the ACA, which was ultimately successful; this week Sebelius said that 7.5 million people had signed up for plan.
Dive Insight:
So, Sebelius has lost her job. Though she did good work in many areas, including work on Head Start to expanding mental health coverage in fostering healthcare research, the failure (at least at first) of HealthCare.gov was a fatal blow to her reputation. Let's see how Sylvia Burwell copes with the incredible list of problems that plague our health care system.