Medicare Paid $5.6 Billion To Drugstores For Questionable Billings
WASHINGTON — It would take a mighty big pill box to hold them. A pharmacy in Kansas billed Medicare for more than 1,000 prescriptions each for ...
WASHINGTON — It would take a mighty big pill box to hold them. A pharmacy in Kansas billed Medicare for more than 1,000 prescriptions each for ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 05.08.2012
WASHINGTON -- Texas Gov. Rick Perry accused the Obama administration last week of skirting its immigration enforcement duties to the point of encourag...
Ken Blackwell | Posted 05.06.2012
The HHS Mandate forces millions of Americans to violate their consciences by active participation in this attack on the Culture of Life. It must be resisted. And resisted not just by Catholics, but by all Americans who cherish religious liberty.
Sec. Kathleen Sebelius | Posted 04.12.2012
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.
Sister Mary Ann Walsh | Posted 03.30.2012
Reams of paper emanate from the HHS about how to "accommodate" religious groups that are upset by their recent mandate. Yet for all the fallen trees, HHS ignores a neuralgic point: the government has overstepped its boundaries when it defines what constitutes religious ministry.
The Huffington Post | Jeffrey Young | Posted 03.22.2012
Health insurance premium hikes in nine states as high as 24 percent are "excessive" and should be blocked, the federal Department of Health and Human ...
Sec. Kathleen Sebelius | Posted 05.08.2012
Over the last three years, we've made significant strides in our fight against tobacco, and our efforts are paying off. But today's report is an important reminder to our nation that we have a lot more work to do to make tobacco death and disease part of our past.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 02.29.2012
WASHINGTON -- Minutes after former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney found himself tripped up over whether or not he supported a bill that would allow em...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jeffrey Young | Posted 02.29.2012
If Texas physician Jacques Roy turns out to be guilty of charges he conspired to defraud Medicare and Medicaid of almost $375 million, we'll know wher...
K. Sujata | Posted 04.25.2012
Women and girls are already receiving such a wafer-thin slice of the pie, and there's no room to trim it further without creating a domino effect that will hurt women, their families and their communities.
Sec. Kathleen Sebelius | Posted 04.10.2012
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.
The Washington Post | Posted 01.30.2012
The Food and Drug Administration secretly monitored the personal e-mail of a group of its own scientists and doctors after they warned Congress that t...
Sister Mary Ann Walsh | Posted 03.26.2012
This egregious violation of religious freedom marks the first time in our history that the federal government is forcing religious people and groups to ante up for services that violate their consciences.
HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 01.24.2012
Government watchdogs are crying "bullshit" and calling the U.S. Navy a "bully" in response to a redacted federal report on the drinking water supply a...
HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 12.16.2011
WASHINGTON -- Elizabeth Warren has spoken almost exclusively about the economy in her public appearances as she runs for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts....
AP | KIMBERLY HEFLING | Posted 02.15.2012
WASHINGTON — Nine states won a collective $500 million Friday from the federal government to help make pre-K and other early learning programs m...
Emily Spitzer | Posted 02.09.2012
Plan B is the simplest birth control pill there is -- it's a morning after pill for women. One pill, taken the morning after sexual intercourse, prevents pregnancy. Indeed, the pill's simplicity is what's made it a target.
HuffingtonPost.com | Alicia Ciccone | Posted 12.10.2011
In a surprising move, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius overturned Wednesday's ruling by the Food and Drug Administration tha...
HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 11.29.2011
The Catholic clergy has aggressively lobbied against the Obama administration's proposed rules for contraception coverage for the past few months, arg...
AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 01.29.2012
WASHINGTON — Federal officials announced Tuesday they are awarding more money to help states carry out President Barack Obama's health care over...
AP | Posted 01.14.2012
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is tapping the health care overhaul law to advance its economic agenda, a political priority for the White...
AP | KELLI KENNEDY | Posted 01.13.2012
MIAMI — Contractors paid tens of millions of taxpayer dollars to detect fraudulent Medicare claims are using inaccurate and inconsistent data th...
Sister Mary Ann Walsh | Posted 01.05.2012
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."
HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 01.03.2012
The nation's governors sent the Obama Administration recommendations Thursday morning regarding the implementation of health care exchanges as a feder...
Sally Steenland | Posted 12.25.2011
Religious organizations cannot have it both ways. They cannot claim a religious exemption and at the same time employ people whose worldview and beliefs are very different from theirs.
AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 05.10.2012