Sebelius: ObamaCare ‘Isn’t a Government Takeover of Anything’

BURGESS: "Now, a lot of people are asking if the president's words leading up to this law if they matter. And the statement in The Washington Post today edited the president's statement, saying 'if you like your health care plan, you'll be able to keep your health care plan, if we deem it adequate.' That seems like a more operational statement. Especially if you go back just a few years into the federal register and I'm quoting from the federal register from July 23rd of 2010, just a few months after the law was signed, the rule -- the interim rule for the dealing with the grandfathering written in the federal record because newly purchased individual policies are not grandfathered, the department expects a large population of individual policies will not be grandfathered covering up to and perhaps exceeding 10 million people. I hope the president was apprised of that before he made the statements because clearly his statement wasn't operational?"
SEBELIUS: "Again, that's an insurance company choice. That was a snapshot of what the market looks like. It was employer-based coverage and individual coverage."
ROGERS: "But in the federal register, those were the comments that were recorded. Now --"
SEBELIUS: "You know, this isn't a government takeover of anything. These are private insurance plans."
ROGERS: "I do have to ask you this. You served the pleasure of the president. We're all aware of. That but we've had many of your employees here in front of this committee. And do you have to ask yourself, are they being purposely misleading or are they really not that smart? So I'm going to ask you this morning for the sake of the future of health care in this country, will you please ask for the resignation of Gary Cohen, because he has repeatedly come to this committee and misled us."
SEBELIUS: "I will not, sir."