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Health Secretary Resigns Under Cloud of Botched Obamacare Rollout

by Amy Schatz

Embattled Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is resigning, administration officials confirmed Thursday, ending a five-year stint at the agency that struggled to roll out President Obama’s health law and fix the buggy HealthCare.gov website. Sebelius, the former governor of Kansas, waited until open enrollment ended on March 31 to submit her resignation to the White House. She’ll be replaced by Office of Management and Budget Director Sylvia Mathews Burwell, administration officials told news outlets.

This article originally appeared on Recode.net.

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