"With her carefully orchestrated departure, Sebelius is leaving the Department of Health and Human Services on her own terms, at a natural breaking point after the enrollment season was finished. But she’s not going to have much control over her legacy, or how she’s remembered as HHS secretary.
For all of the accomplishments Sebelius could have been remembered for — getting the massive pieces of the Affordable Care Act underway, negotiating with the states, writing the complicated rules needed to make its interconnected parts work — the one thing that will always define her legacy is the website disaster that happened on her watch.
“There’s always going to be an asterisk by her name,” said Jim Manley, a former aide to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
Sebelius did bring strong political skills to the job. She was the former governor of Kansas and the daughter of another governor — former Ohio Gov. John Gilligan — but she was also a former insurance commissioner. Those experiences gave her not just the political chops to sit through hours of tough grilling on Capitol Hill, always keeping her cool and sticking to the carefully crafted talking points, but a sympathy for state leaders’ desire for flexibility in the law.
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/04/kathleen-sebelius-legacy-105608.html?hp=t1_3
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