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There's a Sleeper in the Reform Law That Could Transform U.S. Health Care

Wendell Potter | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Obamacare, Health Care Reform, Anthem Blue Cross, Affordable Care Act, Hhs, Aetna, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Co-Ops, Wellpoint, Co-Ops Health Care, Politics News

CO-OPs could be one of the sleepers in the health care reform law that truly transforms how care is financed and delivered in this country. And they could even hasten the day when the big investor-owned corporations cede the marketplace to nonprofits and move on to other ways of earning a profit.

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How Is This for Affordable Health Care? Question the Health and Human Services' New $20 Million PR Firm Hired to Tout Obamacare

Wendy N. Powell | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Wendy Powell, Hhs, Kathleen Sebelius, Obamacare, Supreme Court Obamacare, Rob Portman, Clair-Mccaskill, Scotus, Politics News

This impending PR campaign is irresponsible when there is a Supreme Court decision expected in the not-too-distant future that may affect the very existence of the Affordable Health Care Act.

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Obama Administration Spurned Chicago's Request For NATO Summit Emergency Supplies

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Chicago NATO Summit, Hhs, Video, Natural Disasters, Nato Summit 2012, Bioterrorism, Terrorism, Emergency Preparedness, Politics News

President Barack Obama's administration refused a request from Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel to position a large cache of medical supplies in his city in...

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College Suing Obama Administration Over Birth Control Mandate

AP | RACHEL ZOLL | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Video, Birth Control Mandate, Roman Catholic Church, Birth-Control, Notre Dame, Health and Human Service Agency, Obama Administration, Notre Dame Suing Obama Administration, Hhs, Notre Dame Lawsuit, Barack Obama, Politics News

NEW YORK — Roman Catholic leaders opened a new front against the Obama administration mandate that employers provide workers birth control cover...

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Top 5 HHS Programs Endangering Women and Children

Anne Stevenson | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: War on Women, Violence Against Women Act 2012, Department of Health and Human Services, Fathers HHS Services, HHS Domestic Violence, Hhs, Politics News

The so-called "War on Women" is raging, and billions of your tax dollars are being misused to fuel it via the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

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Here Come The Feds: Hospital Debt Collection Under Scrutiny From Obama Cabinet Member And Democrats

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeffrey Young | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Lori Swanson, Debt, Minnesota, Kathleen Sebelius, Health Care Costs, Economy, Jobs, Health Insurance, Henry Waxman, Business, Video, Debt Collectors, Uninsured, Pete Stark, Hospitals, Hhs, Health Care, Healthcare, Business News

Government regulators are looking into reports of aggressive debt collectors hassling patients at hospitals. Health and Human Services Secretary Ka...

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Head Start Agencies Slam Obama Administration

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Child Poverty, Edward Waters, Administration for Children and Families, Kathleen Sebelius, Ron Herndon, George H. Sheldon, Head Start Recompetition, Hhs, Obama, Early Childhood Education, Head Start, Barack Obama, Ece, Parents News

For decades, Head Start programs around the country didn't have to worry about getting their funding renewed. It was rare that a center lost its gover...

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Health Equity Can't Wait

Sec. Kathleen Sebelius | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Latinos, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Health Disparities, Health Care Reform, Affordable Care Act, Hhs, Global Motherhood, Minority Health, Minority Health Care, Health and Human Services, Health Care, Obama Health Care, African Americans, Home News

April is National Minority Health Month, a time to raise awareness about the well-documented health disparities that continue to affect racial and ethnic minorities, as well as highlight how the Affordable Care Act is reducing those disparities.

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Prohibiting The Free Exercise Thereof

Michael Yarbrough | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Contraception, Hhs, Health Care, Barack Obama, Affordable Care Act, Mandate, Religion and Politics, Contraception Debate Religion, Religion News

The HHS mandate takes religious organizations into full account by exempting those that do not serve a secular purpose.

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Women's Health Care is Stronger Thanks to the Health Care Law

Sec. Kathleen Sebelius | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: Preventive Health, Kathleen Sebelius, Prevention, US Department of Health and Human Services, Women's Health, Health Care Reform, Health Secretary Sebelius, Hhs, Health Care, Affordable Care Act, Health News, Politics News

Over the last two years, women have begun to see the better health, better care, and lower costs that everyone deserves. And over the next two years, women will continue to see stronger benefits and protections for them and their families.

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Why Our Blunt Narrative Doesn't Win

Eric Sapp | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Contraception, Strategy, Talking Points, Blunt Amendment, Family Planning, Women's Health, Obama, Parenting, Pregnancy, Obama Contraception Rule, Hhs, Obama Birth Control, Women's Rights, Birth Control, Kathleen Sebelius, Obama Contraception, Politics News

By making contraception only about women's health, we're telling voters contraception decisions are not about parents, not about men, and not about families.

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Jacques Roy and His Cohorts Stole $375 Million from Taxpayers, Government Alleges

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeffrey Young | Posted 02.28.2012

Read More: Fraud, Law Enforcement, Crime, Fbi, Department of Justice, Hhs, Medicare, Medicaid, Health Care, Health Care Fraud, Business News

Federal authorities arrested a Texas physician and six others today on charges they bilked Medicare and Medicaid of $375 million from 2006 until last ...

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We Can't Wait: Taking Action on Alzheimer's Disease

Sec. Kathleen Sebelius | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Alzheimer's Disease, Hhs, Alzheimer's, Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, Alzheimer's Research 2011, Alzheimer's Research, Healthy Living News

We can't wait to act. As the population of the United States ages, the time for bold action on the growing public health challenge posed by Alzheimer's is now.

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Alzheimer's Can't Wait

Harry Johns | Posted 04.07.2012

Read More: President Budget, Alzheimer's Disease, Hhs, Napa, Harry Johns, Alzheimer's Association, Research in Alzheimer's, Alzheimer's Disease Research, Research on Alzheimer's, Alzheimer's, Alzheimer's Research, Healthy Living News

Alzheimer's can't wait. Not any longer. Everyone who has been touched by this disease knows its terrible effects. All of those families are waiting for the next steps of the NAPA process, starting with the president's budget.

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New Report Calms Jittery White House Ahead Of 2012

AP | By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 01.10.2012

Read More: Video, Health Care Cost Controls, Health Care Law, Health Care Spending, Medicare Spending, Hhs, Medicare, Obama Health Care Law, Health Care, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Is health-care relief finally in sight? Health spending stabilized as a share of the nation's economy in 2010 after two back-to-back ye...

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Essential Benefits -- Who Decides?

Linda Bergthold | Posted 02.15.2012

Read More: Hhs, Essential Health Benefits, Affordable Care Act, Medical Necessity, Health Reform, Health Care Reform, Essential Health Care Benefits, Health Care Benefits, Politics News

Since the passage of the Affordable Care Act, we have been reassured that the benefits that are "essential" would be comprehensive yet affordable. But what is an essential benefit and who gets to decide? Tough questions. No easy answers.

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HHS Protects Fla. Consumers From $145 Million Health Insurance Heist

Ethan Rome | Posted 02.14.2012

Read More: Hhs, Rick Scott, Health Care for America Now, Health Insurance, Consumer Protection, Republicans, Mlr, Politics News

There are two clear sides in the health care wars, and when the Republicans like Rick Scott and the insurance companies win, America's seniors and families lose.

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Who Is More Essential? You or Health Insurers?

Wendell Potter | Posted 02.11.2012

Read More: Health Care Reform, Affordable Care Act, Hhs, Institute of Medicine, Kathleen Sebelius, Obamacare, Barack Obama, Politics News

The money that patients' rights advocates have to spend to convince the administration that Americans should have decent health care benefits pales in comparison to the boatloads of cash insurers and their corporate allies have on hand to do largely the opposite.

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We Are All an 11-year-old Girl -- And She Is Pissed

Ellen R. Shaffer | Posted 02.07.2012

Read More: Emergency Contraception, Hhs, Fda, Plan B OTC, Fda Plan B, Over the Counter, Sebelius Plan B, Obama Plan B, Politics News

Women are the last remaining voting majority who are treated like a splinter group. It will stay that way until we stand up for ourselves, together, and demand power.

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OK White House, Now Give Consumers Some Quality Time to Talk Health Care

Wendell Potter | Posted 02.01.2012

Read More: Jay Rockefeller, Obamacare, Health Care Reform, Rosa DeLauro, Hhs, Cigna, Aetna, Cass Sunstein, Medical-Loss Ratio, Mlr, Politics News

The administration should pay far more attention to what they have to say than to executives and lobbyists for Aetna and the rest of the industry who, take it from me, are more interested in their own best interests than in their customers.

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Protecting our Birth Control

Haydee Morales | Posted 01.25.2012

Read More: Health Care Reform, Catholic Church, Religion and Politics, Hhs, Birth Control, Planned Parenthood, Birth Control Refusal, Barack Obama, Latino Voices News

Someone lease tell me: why are members of the Tea Party trying to force Obama to deny birth control to women?

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Mr. President: Catholic Women Use Birth Control, Too

Jon O'Brien | Posted 01.23.2012

Read More: Catholic Church, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Hhs, Birth Control, Archbishop Timothy Dolan, Pro-Choice, Refusal-Clause, Catholics, Contraception, Politics News

Providing no-cost family planning is good public health policy and an important advancement under the Affordable Care Act. But the bishops want to grant a broad refusal clause that will enable them to discriminate against millions of Americans.

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Catholic Bishops' Dispute With HHS Continues

Sister Mary Ann Walsh | Posted 01.05.2012

Read More: Sharon Parrott, George Sheldon, Richard Nixon, Kathleen Sebelius, Hhs, Catholic Bishops, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Health and Human Services, Catholic Church, Religion News

The most memorable line since Richard Nixon's "I am not a crook" has just come out of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS): "I'm not trying to get anyone off the hook here."

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White House Waffles On Key Part Of Health Care Reform

AP | By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 12.17.2011

Read More: CLASS Act, Cbo, Kathleen Sebelius, Class Act Obama, Congressional Budget Office, Deficit, Cbo Score, Video, Health Care Reform, Long-Term Care, Hhs, Obama Class Act, Health and Human Services, Health Reform, Health Care, Obama Health Care Reform, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The White House appeared to waffle Monday on the fate of a financially troubled long-term care program in President Barack Obama's healt...

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Greening Disadvantaged Populations In The Name Of Environmental Justice

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 12.10.2011

Read More: Native American Rights, Hhs Environmental Justice, Environmental Justice, Epa, Hazardous Waste, Green Building, Environment, Hurricane Katrina, Hhs, Health and Human Services, Midnite Mine, Environmental Justice Strategy, SXSW Eco, Green News

AUSTIN, Texas -- Thirty years after the Midnite Mine was closed, clean-up of the 33 million tons of radioactive remains at the site -- located within...

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