Sebelius Says President Obama Has Instructed All Cabinet-Level Departments to Promote Public Health

CNS News reports on how Secretary Sebelius views the government's role in your life:

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius says President Obama “expects” all cabinet departments to leverage their resources in support of public health, a move she suggested is unprecedented.

“One of the things that’s happened in this administration, which I would suggest has not really happened in the past, is that the president has made it very clear to all of us at the cabinet level that while health may be directly in the portfolio of Health and Human Services, he expects all of the cabinet officers to spend some time figuring out ways that we can leverage their assets and work on this issue,” said Sebelius in an April 8 speech on Capitol Hill.

“Having this multi-agency focus on these [health] initiatives I think is an enormously important way to not only leverage our assets, but actually to look at the whole community strategy, which I think is so very important,” she added.

Sebelius explained that the Department of Transportation (DOT) can operate as a “health agency" by funding bike trails for communities, among other things.

Can we be far away from being forced to buy a health club membership? Or a new eugenics movement?