This week, the House of Representatives moved further towards repealing the largest gimmick in President Obama’s health care law, the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) Program. CLASS was billed as a program that would help disabled individuals pay for long-term care services. (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)
On Thursday President Barack Obama defended his administration’s 11th-hour decision to keep in place an age restriction on the sale of the “morning after” birth control pill. (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)
Rep. Tim Huelskamp, a Kansas Republican and a Tea Party Caucus member, is sounding the alarm over a proposed rule from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that would aggregate confidential patient information into a single government database. (more)
The Obama administration finally deserves some credit on Obamacare. On the heels of pulling the plug on the unworkable long-term care program known as the CLASS Act, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) actually listened to those who know best when it comes to delivering health care: doctors, hospitals and nurses. (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)
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)
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 federal government has a growing interest in the eating habits of Americans for the same reason it has an interest in tobacco consumption, said Kathleen Sebelius, the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. (more)
States are desperate to find savings to get their budgets in balance. Medicaid spending has nearly doubled over the last decade, and for many it consumes the first or second biggest share of state expenditures, threatening education, public safety, and transportation programs. (more)
With the release of House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) proposed 2012 budget, Washington is abuzz with support, attacks, praise and ridicule. Above it all, however, is the fiscal disaster that Ryan is trying to avoid with his proposal. As Ed Morrissey noted in a recent presentation at The Heritage Foundation, everyone in Washington knows that entitlements need fixing and fast — they simply choose to ignore it, or they did until Ryan’s budget came out. (more)
Do you remember your last birthday? What was it that you wished for? Did you get it? I ask because this week marks Obamacare’s first birthday! Birthdays are generally a cause for joy and celebration — but this birthday is an exception. (more)
President Obama’s government takeover of health care is just as unpopular now as it was upon being signed into law. Not surprisingly, his administration is playing defense in anticipation of a very lonely and historically hollow one-year anniversary. Instead of reasonably reassessing the shortcomings of the legislation, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius placed an op-ed last Monday outlandishly titled “Everyone prospers under health law.” Doubtless other glowing and grossly disconnected defenses will follow. The simple fact is, no amount of spin can disguise the plain truth: Obama’s 2,000-page leviathan was the wrong answer at the wrong time, and has created more problems than solutions. (more)
Today marks the one-year anniversary of the passage of President Obama’s job-killing health care bill, but Americans are still waiting for something about this bill to celebrate. Last year, Nancy Pelosi and her fellow Democrats heralded the 2,000-page bill as the solution for decreasing health care costs, creating jobs and reducing our deficit. They chose to ignore the concerns and opposition of the American people and rammed Obamacare through Congress without a single Republican vote, claiming we had to “pass the bill to find out what was in the bill.” (more)
On the anniversary of President Barack Obama signing his prized health care overhaul legislation into law, The Daily Caller is providing a breakdown of what Obamacare provisions have already been instituted. The day Obamacare hit the books one year ago, 150 new regulations immediately went into effect. Since then, 125 more regulations have gone into effect. (more)
Top GOP health-care official Rep. Fred Upton is investigating the end-of-life counseling regulation Sarah Palin famously referred to as “death panels” — a rule that was stripped from the president’s health-care law following the controversy, but stealthily added back by administrative fiat. (more)
Although House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Rep. Fred Upton, Michigan Republican, is about to launch a congressional investigation into Obamacare waiver selection, the administration continues to approve waivers from health-care law for labor unions and others. In fact, since Upton first requested documentation from Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius in late January, the administration has issued 307 more Obamacare waivers, 47 of which for labor unions. That brings the total number of waivers to 1,040. Labor unions received 269 of those. (more)
