Kathleen Sebelius on Obamacare: ‘We were very forthright with the American public’

Former Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius dismissed recently-unearthed comments from an adviser on President Obama’s health care overhaul as “offensive” and “flat-out wrong,” saying Monday there was an open process surrounding the law’s passage.

“I think that Professor Gruber’s comments are just offensive and flat-out wrong — there couldn’t have been more open discussions,” Ms. Sebelius said on CNN’s “New Day.” “There were dozens of hearings and mark-ups and analysis. There were five committees in Congress; this went on for months and months, so the notion that somehow...