Despite charges to the contrary from Republicans, Kathleen Sebelius is NOT resigning because Obamacare is a failure. She is resigning because it is now clearly a success.

Courtesy of Vox:  

Obamacare has won. And that's why Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius can resign. 

Calls for Sebelius's resignation were almost constant after Obamacare's catastrophic launch. The problem wasn't just that Sebelius had presided over the construction of a fantastically expensive web site that flatly didn't work. It was that she didn't know healthcare.gov was going to instantly, systemically fail. And so the White House didn't know that healthcare.gov was going to instantly, systemically fail. The demands that Sebelius to step down — or be fired — were as deafening inside the building as outside of it. 

But President Obama refused. As National Journal's Major Garrett reported, Obama believes that "scaring people with a ceremonial firing deepens fear, turns allies against one another, makes them risk-averse, and saps productivity." Moreover, there was too much to be done to fire one of the few people who knew how to finish the job. Sebelius would stay. The White House wouldn't panic in ways that made it harder to save the law. 

The evidence has piled up in recent weeks that the strategy worked. Obamacare's first year, despite a truly horrific start, was a success. More than 7 million people look to have signed up for health insurance through the exchanges. Millions more have signed up through Medicaid. And millions beyond that have signed up for insurance through their employers.

Right now the Right Wing is patting itself on the back and claiming that Sebelius is caving to pressure from them to resign, despite the fact that they were unable to budge her for the entire healthcare.gov debacle, and that she faced the Republicans down in hearing after hearing.

This is like a big burly man tripping and falling in the street and bunch of children running up and claiming to have knocked him down.

Sebelius resisted the Right Wing calls for her to step down, and for President Obama to fire her, and now that Obamacare has achieved its goal i is simply time for her to take a less stressful job.

Happens all the time, in all administrations.

In my opinion Kathleen Sebelius should be quite proud of her success. If ever there were a heavy lift in American politics the Affordable Care Act was it.

On the other hand the numerous deaths that will surely be the result of the refusal of Republican governors to expand Medicaid will be the legacy of the Right Wing.