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Tag: Health And Human Services

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Health Secretary Goes Begging to Insurance Companies

This is incredibly sad, outrageous or corrupt, depending on where you sit, but it is being reported that Kathleen Sebelius has been asking health insurers to help fund the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.

Posted on May 10, 2013 READ MORE

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Proposed Rules Could Hamper Patient Protection

Last year’s health care reform law promised to address the problem of the hundreds of thousands of patients killed each year by professional error. Outside groups were to be allowed to analyze hospital conditions and publicly report on the quality of care. But new rules proposed by ... (more)

Posted on Sep 18, 2011 READ MORE | 1 COMMENT

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Free Birth Control Possible With Health Care Overhaul

Health insurance companies may soon be required to provide women with free birth control among other services, as part of the health care law passed last year. On Tuesday an independent panel of health specialists released its recommendation concerning services under the law.

Posted on Jul 20, 2011 READ MORE | 4 COMMENTS

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Gays Get Hospital Visitation Rights

Addressing an important rights issue, President Barack Obama has written a memo ordering hospitals in the U.S. to grant to gay and lesbian partners the same visitation privileges already enjoyed by married heterosexual couples.

Posted on Apr 16, 2010 READ MORE | 3 COMMENTS

Colbert Drops the Act for Haiti

In a rare moment of on-air candor, Stephen Colbert consults with Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius about the situation in Haiti and learns a very important texting trick that viewers can use to send money, now, to add to the earthquake relief effort.

Posted on Jan 15, 2010 READ MORE | 6 COMMENTS

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Obama Taps Sebelius for Top Health Post

Let’s try this again, shall we? Tom Daschle didn’t make the cut, but President Obama has a new contender for secretary of health and human services. Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, who may be vulnerable to attacks on the abortion issue, faces a potentially challenging confirmation process.

Posted on Mar 2, 2009 READ MORE | 3 COMMENTS

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Daschle Drops Out

Memo to anyone still angling for a top position in the Obama administration: Pay your taxes. Tom Daschle is the latest political player to find himself out of the running—in his case, to head the Department of Health and Human Services—after tax issues came to light.

Posted on Feb 3, 2009 READ MORE | 9 COMMENTS

Obama Backs Embattled Daschle

Will tax problems sink former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle’s chances of becoming the next U.S. health secretary? President Obama apparently hopes that this won’t be the case.

Posted on Feb 2, 2009 READ MORE | 9 COMMENTS

Obama Settles on 3 More Cabinet Picks, Sources Say

Those famous “multiple Democratic sources close to the transition” have revealed three more members of Barack Obama’s Cabinet: Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle as secretary of health and human services, Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano as chief of homeland security ~~and Obama’s billionaire buddy and top fundraiser Penny Pritzker to head the Commerce Department~~. Update: Pritzker is out.