One Private Meeting Between
President, Sebelius in 3.5 Years Leading Up to Obamacare Launch
by Wynton Hall 4 Dec 2013
A stunning new study unveiled on
Fox News' Hannity finds that President Barack
Obama’s White House calendar records just one face-to-face meeting between
Obama and his Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius in the more than three-and-a-half years leading
up to the disastrous Obamacare
launch.
The startling statistic comes from
a new Government Accountability Institute (GAI) analysis of Obama’s own
official White House calendar, as well as the Politico presidential calendar,
and raises new questions about Obama’s executive leadership and management
throughout the implementation of his singular legislative achievement.
More alarming still, the
president’s schedule lists 277 private meetings with 16 other Cabinet
secretaries in the same time span from Obamacare’s March 23, 2010 signing to
November 30, 2013. Why Obama would devote so little face time to the person
tasked with implementing what he calls his “most important initiative” is
presently unclear.
According to the GAI report,
technically, the official White House calendar contains zero meetings with Sebelius,
as it only reaches back to July 12, 2010. GAI researchers then used the
Politico presidential calendar to assess listings between Obamacare’s signing
(March 23, 2010) and the first date listed on the White House’s calendar (July
12, 2010). The study also analyzed the entirety of the Politico calendar from
March 23, 2010 to November 30, 2013 and found a single mention of an April 21,
2010 joint meeting between Obama, then-Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, and Sebelius.
In a November 14th press conference,
Obama claimed he “was not informed directly that the website would not be
working the way it was supposed to.”
GAI says it recorded listings as
they were contained on the White House and Politico presidential calendars;
other forms of communications, such as private emails or phone calls, are not
able to be quantified.
The lack of in-person meetings
between Sebelius and Obama may offer new insight into what the New York Times
calls a “deeply dysfunctional relationship” between HHS and Obama’s White House
chief of staff. On Tuesday, the New York Times reported that White House
officials are coming under "mounting pressure from Democrats and close
allies to hold senior-level people accountable for the botched rollout of
President Barack Obama's signature domestic achievement and to determine who
should be fired."
Timothy Geithner
Timothy F.
Geithner was the treasury secretary for the Barack Obama administration, an overseer at the International Rescue Committee, and is married
to Carole Sonnenfeld Geithner.
Note: Carole
Sonnenfeld Geithner is married to Timothy
F. Geithner, and was a research associate for Common Cause.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the International Rescue Committee, Common Cause, the Hudson
Institute (think tank), Brookings
Institution (think tank), and the
Committee for Economic Development.
George
Soros is the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society.
Kenneth M.
Duberstein is a trustee emeritus at the Hudson Institute (think tank), a director at the Boeing Company, a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and
was the VP for the Committee for
Economic Development.
W. James
McNerney Jr. is the chairman & president & CEO for the Boeing Company,
and a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago.
Barbara G. Fast
was a VP at the Boeing Company, and
a VP for the CGI Group Inc.
CGI Group Inc.
was the Obamacare contractor that
developed Healthcare.gov web site.
Obamacare
is Barack Obama’s signature policy
initiative.
Donna
S. Morea was the EVP for the CGI
Group Inc., and a trustee at the Committee
for Economic Development.
Cyrus F.
Freidheim Jr. is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
R.
Eden Martin is the president of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP.
Michelle
Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Dora
Hughes is a senior policy adviser for Sidley
Austin LLP, and was Kathleen
Sebelius’s counselor at HHS.
Kathleen Sebelius’s
counselor at HHS was Dora Hughes, and is the secretary at
the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services for the Barack Obama
administration.
Barack
Obama is the president for the Barack
Obama administration, and was an intern at Sidley Austin LLP.
Newton
N. Minow is a senior counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP, and a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Valerie B. Jarrett
is a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, the senior adviser for the Barack
Obama administration, and her great uncle is Vernon E. Jordan Jr.
Vernon E. Jordan Jr. is Valerie B. Jarrett’s great uncle, an
honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), a director
at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), a senior counsel for
Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld,
LLP, and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Akin,
Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP is the lobby firm for the Boeing Company.
W. James
McNerney Jr. is the chairman & president & CEO for the Boeing Company,
and a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago.
Barbara G. Fast
was a VP at the Boeing Company, and
a VP for the CGI Group Inc.
CGI Group Inc.
was the Obamacare contractor that
developed Healthcare.gov web site.
Obamacare
is Barack Obama’s signature policy
initiative.
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