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The Daily 202's Big Idea

Sebelius stumping with Democrats shows the changing politics of health care

The Daily 202's Big Idea

The Washington Post

Politics, News, Daily News

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2018

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

If you made a list five years ago of national Democratic surrogates that a candidate in a purple state like Wisconsin would want to campaign with, Kathleen Sebelius would not be on it.

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Good morning. I'm James Holman from the Washington Post and this is the Daily 202 for Tuesday, October 16th.

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In today's news, President Trump suggests rogue killers may have been behind

0:24.7

Jamal Keshoggi's murder. Jim Mattis has enacted very few large-scale changes

0:30.5

that will outlast his tenure as defense secretary.

0:33.4

And a federal judge not only dismisses Stormy Daniels's defamation lawsuit against the

0:38.0

president but orders her to pay Trump's legal bills. First though, the big idea. If you made a list five years ago

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of national Democratic surrogates that a candidate in a purple state like

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Wisconsin would want to campaign with, Kathleen Sebelius would not be on it.

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Sebelius was the architect of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, and she took much of the blame during the botched rollout of health care.gov back in 2013.

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She was the avatar and the scapegoat for all the laws problems.

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On Monday though the Democrat running against Republican Governor Scott Walker

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welcomed her here with open arms.

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Sebelia stumped in Milwaukee and then Madison.

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She ripped Walker for not expanding Medicaid under the law

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and warned that a lawsuit he's a party to could strip people here of coverage for

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pre-existing conditions.

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I don't know anybody who would say the federal government wants to give you a billion

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dollars in a CEO of the state. I'm just going to say no.

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Like politics with people's lives.

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Let me make that clear.

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