July 29, 2013 9:18AM 

# Kathleen Sebelius on Obamacare’s ‘Very Tight’ Deadliness 

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

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Yes, *deadliness*. That was the original headline for [this exclusive *Washington Post* interview](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/07/26/exclusive-kathleen-sebelius-on-obamacares-very-tight-deadliness/) with the [Empress of ObamaCare](http://washingtonexaminer.com/philip-klein-obamacares-empress-strikes-again/article/2529742). It’s still in the URL. All parties now swear it was a typo. We report, you decide.

In that interview, Sebelius admits they’re not going about this whole ObamaCare implementation thing the best way:

> Ideally what you would do if you were building a data hub that needs this kind of information, you’d put a piece together and test that. You test it, if you will, sequentially. We have to build and test simultaneously.

And:

> We always knew that the federal government clearly cannot do this alone. We never anticipated that we would.

And still Sebelius admits she isn’t doing ObamaCare full-time.

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