The Catholic media network started thirty years ago by Mother Angelica, a cloistered nun, is now taking legal action against Obama administration officials over the new mandate requiring health insurance plans, including those offered by religious organizations, to cover contraceptives. (more)
White House spokesman Jay Carney today hinted that the Obama administration might compromise on its Jan. 20 directive requiring religious groups to comply with federal sex-related health insurance mandates. (more)
The Obama administration’s top health care administrator invoked Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in justifying the landmark health care reform law Friday. (more)
Labor unions continued to receive the overwhelming majority of waivers from the president’s health care reform law since the Obama administration tightened application rules last summer. (more)
North Carolina Republican Rep. Virginia Foxx said on the House floor Thursday that the federal government will be “shelling out” $200 million to cover the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Service’s “incompetence” and “inability” to keep “a lid” on costs for an upgrade to their Medicaid billing system. (more)
At a Thursday House oversight committee hearing on the administration’s decision not to renew funding to United States Conference of Catholic Bishops to help victims of human sex trafficking, the committee’s Republicans clashed with Health and Human Services official George Sheldon. (more)
Sen. Claire McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat, has asked The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to review the Obama administration’s award of a $443 million sole-source contract to a company owned by a major Democratic donor. (more)
President Barack Obama flew to swing-state Pennsylvania on Tuesday to declare that Republican intransigence in Congress has prompted him to implement a reform of the Head Start program. (more)
The Defense of Marriage Act has traditionally been criticized as discriminatory toward same-sex couples. But a prominent ethics watchdog said Thursday that the law is, in fact, unconstitutional because it unreasonably exempts same-sex couples from complying with various ethics laws. (more)
Privacy by convenience? Kansas Republican Rep. Tim Huelskamp pointed out what he says is Kathleen Sebelius’s double standard on patient privacy: one standard for abortion records while she was governor of Kansas, and another for Obamacare as Secretary of Health and Human Services. (more)
The Obama administration adamantly denies it, but rumors are circulating in Washington that his Department of Health and Human Services is already collecting Americans’ private health information, or at least preparing itself to do so. (more)
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius backed a chief Moody’s economist in a speech before a U.S. Commerce Department conference Wednesday, saying that President Barack Obama’s jobs bill will “create almost 2 million badly needed jobs.” (more)
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released new guidelines for employees dealing with reporters, and some journalists are none too pleased about it. (more)
In the thick of the debate over President Barack Obama’s health care reform bill, administration officials ignored warnings that one of its most controversial provisions was financially unsustainable and could leave taxpayers on the hook for billions of dollars. (more)
It’s the second time the agency has issued an outright rejection to a waiver from the healthcare law. (more)
Pro-lifers are horrified at the announcement Monday that the Obama administration has approved a recommendation from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to guarantee full health insurance coverage for birth control, including the so-called “morning-after” pill, under the Affordable Care Act. (more)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Health insurance plans must cover birth control as preventive care for women, with no copays, the Obama administration said Monday in a decision with far-reaching implications for health care as well as social mores. (more)
It’s quite unusual to open an envelope from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and find two $1 dollar bills, especially when it’s addressed to you (or “current occupant”). But this year, thousands of Americans are sharing this experience with me. (more)
When Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius visits Frager’s Hardware Store near the U.S. Capitol Monday, where she is expected to release the much-anticipated proposed regulations on the health insurance exchanges, she’ll face many skeptics. (more)
The Obama administration, which touts itself as the “most transparent” in American history, was dealt another blow on Tuesday with the release of a Government Accountability Office (GAO) analysis of the Obamacare waiver decision-making process. (more)
