ObamaCare: Health & Human Services

HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius – the former executive director of the Kansas Trail Lawyers Association – was given frighteningly vast powers by the new law. Philip Klein of the American Spectator explained:

There are more than 2,500 references to the secretary of HHS in the health care law (in most cases she's simply mentioned as "the Secretary"). A further breakdown finds that there are more than 700 instances in which the Secretary is instructed that she "shall" do something, and more than 200 cases in which she "may" take some form of regulatory action if she chooses. On 139 occasions, the law mentions decisions that the "Secretary determines."

Sebelius is now issuing a series of “guidances” and regulations that exploit these new powers.