October 1, 2010 10:46AM 

# Sebelius: Anonymous Political Speech ‘Dangerous’ 

By [Michael F. Cannon](https://www.cato.org/people/michael-f-cannon) 

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In all of Washington, is there a greater enemy of free speech than Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius?

- Her department is forcing millions of Americans to finance speech that they oppose, by using taxpayer dollars to broadcast ([misleading](http://www.factcheck.org/2010/07/mayberry-misleads-on-medicare/)) [television ads](https://www.cato.org/mr-president-tear-down-that-andy-griffith-ad/) that promote [ObamaCare](https://www.cato.org/pubs/wtpapers/BadMedicineWP.pdf).
- She is using the powers granted her under ObamaCare to [threaten](https://www.cato.org/obamacares-threat-to-free-speech/) insurers with bankruptcy if they publicly disagree with her about the law’s cost.
- Now, she is [decrying](http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/monitor_breakfast/2010/0930/Kathleen-Sebelius-sees-dangerous-flow-of-anonymous-campaign-cash) the growth of anonymous political speech in congressional campaigns.

Would that coerced speech, or government suppression of speech, troubled her as much as anonymous speech.

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