Obama Bids Health Secretary Goodbye as He Names Successor

President Barack Obama thanked Kathleen Sebelius for helping pass the 2010 health-care law and named Sylvia Mathews Burwell his new health secretary, calling her “a proven manager” who knows how “to deliver results.”

In getting the Obamacare exchange website running, “there were problems,” the president said in the White House Rose Garden. “But under Kathleen’s leadership, her team at HHS turned the corner, got the job done, and the final score speaks for itself.”