Sebelius: Obamacare Opponents No Different Than Opponents of Civil Rights

Life News ^ | July 17, 2013 | Steven Ertelt

[NYer]

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius yesterday compared people who oppose the Obamacare health care law to segregationists who opposed civil rights legislation in the 1960s.

While pro-life advocates oppose Obamacare because of its abortion funding provisions, the HHS mandate that thwarts religious conscience and for other reasons, Sebeluis appears to think they are no different than people who stood in the way of laws protecting black Americans.

CNS News broke the story with Sebelius’ comments, which appear below:

“The Affordable Care Act is the most powerful law for reducing health disparities since Medicare and Medicaid were created in 1965, the same year the Voting Rights Act was also enacted,” Sebelius said. “That significance hits especially close to home. My father was a congressman from Cincinnati who voted for each of those critical civil rights laws, and who represented a district near where the late Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth lived and preached.

“The same arguments against change, the same fear and misinformation that opponents used then are the same ones opponents are spreading now. ‘This won’t work,’ ‘Slow down,’ ‘Let’s wait,’ they say.

“But history shows that upholding our founding principles demands continuous work toward a more perfect union…And it requires the kind of work that the NAACP has done for more than a century to move us forward.

“You showed it in the fight against lynching and the fight for desegregation. You showed it by ensuring inalienable rights are secured in the courtroom and at the ballot box. And you showed it by supporting a health law 100 years in the making.

“With each step forward, you said to forces of the status quo, ‘This will work,’ ‘We can’t slow down’ ‘We can’t wait,’ ‘We won’t turn back.’

 

Sebelius then hailed the “voices of progress” that “we hear and honor this year,” as people start signing up for mandatory health insurance on Oct. 1:

“They echo from church bells rung at midnight 150 years ago to educate our nation of a people’s emancipation. They echo from a speech on our nation’s mall 50 years ago next month about the promise of our nation’s dream. And they still echo and guide us today in a second term of a historic presidency.

“So let us seize this moment. We can’t slow down. We can’t wait. We won’t turn back. We move forward.”

[autumnraine]

What scares me more is that there are people that think this sounds rational.

[Tax-chick]

What about people who oppose Obamacare because every instance of expanding government participation in medical care results in higher costs and worse results?

[Oldeconomybuyer]

So says the Marxist.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Seriously.

Conservatives in position of “authority” need to just point and laugh. Heartily!

[Dilbert San Diego]

Well, if we can’t slow down, we can’t wait and all that, why did her boss delay the implementation of the employer mandate in Obamacare by a year? Is Obama racist then, is Obama just like Bull Connor and George Wallace?????

[golf lover]

If Sarah Palin said something this dumb it would be all over the media!

[Jacquerie]

Whenever I see Sebelius, my mind's eye sees her in the uniform of a commandant over a female concentration camp. I see near pure evil.

[CommerceComet]

On behalf of my home state of Kansas, please forgive us for inflicting this monstrosity on the entire nation.

[Proud2BeRight]

OK dumb woman. If you want to make that kind of statement maybe will understand:
“Obamacare proponents are no different than proponents of Nazism.”

[Mastador1]

That’s RACIST!

[matginzac]

This woman is a chain smoking wack job...
How did she EVER get elected to office?

[PowderMonkey]

"...compared people who oppose the Obamacare health care law to segregationists who opposed civil rights legislation in the 1960s."

Oh. You're referring to Democrats. You know. The party of slavery. The ones who, headed by Al Gore, Sr., voted down the Civil Rights Act, which was finally passed with backing by conservative Republicans, back in the day when they had a spine.

[Chaguito]

Give’er the hook! Are these people really this incapable of a coherent thought?

[Essie]

What a nasty, race baiting bigot she is. She uses the concept of civil rights to deny people their basic rights to good health care. She also panders to blacks so that her party can use them. She and her ilk have no shame.

[chris37]

Well, Sebelius, the federal government, i.e. YOU, are opponents of my civil rights.

In fact you and yours are openly hostile to my civil rights.

[headstamp 2]

Another Moonbat.

Everything is a civil right now. Gay Marriage, Healthcare, a phone, Mac and Cheese.

[diamond6]

A reporter should ask her if SHE will be subject to Obamacare!!!

[Iron Munro]

Obama and these people in the Obama cabinet are absolutely the most disgusting, vile creatures to ever serve in such positions of responsiblity - every last one of them.

[kearnyirish2]

“Obama and these people in the Obama cabinet are absolutely the most disgusting, vile creatures to ever serve in such positions of responsiblity - every last one of them.”

They are the Nazis of the 21st century.