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111 Charged in Medicare Scams Worth $225 Million

MIAMI -- Federal authorities charged more than 100 doctors, nurses and physical therapists in nine cities with Medicare fraud Thursday, part of a massive nationwide bust that snared more suspects than any other in history. More than 700 law enforcement agents fanned out to arrest dozens of people accused of illegally...

Opinion: Winning the Future With Health Care Reform

On Tuesday, President Barack Obama outlined a plan to help America win the future. But some in Congress are still intent on refighting the political battles of the past two years by trying to repeal the health care law, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. With millions of Americans already benefiting from the...

Will Food Safety Law Be Toothless Without Funding?

It has taken 73 years to finally pass a meaningful bill to ensure the safety of America's food supply, which President Barack Obama made law tonight. The bill will assure Americans that they won't wind up in a hospital just because they sat down for a meal, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said...

New Rules Require Health Insurers to Spend More on Care

WASHINGTON (Nov. 22) -- Insurance companies will have to spend 80 to 85 percent of consumers' premiums on direct patient care or send a rebate if they don't, under long-awaited rules issued today that were passed as part of the Obama administration's health care law. The 308 pages of regulations on what is known as the...

Feds Want Corpses, Rotting Teeth on Cigarette Packages

(Nov. 10) -- Images of corpses, rotting teeth and diseased lungs will take up half the space on a pack of cigarettes, under federal proposals unveiled today. The graphic new labels are designed to scare smokers into quitting by showing what can happen to them. The warnings are required under a law passed last year that...

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Kathleen Sebelius Georgetown Graduation Speech Embraces Church, State Separation

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius paid homage to religious freedom and the separation of church and state in a graduation speech Friday at Georgetown University that was briefly interrupted by an anti-abortion heckler.

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Doctors, Nurses, Social Workers Charged In Historic Medicare Bust

Federal authorities charged 107 doctors, nurses and social workers in seven cities with Medicare fraud Tuesday in a nationwide crackdown on unrelated scams that allegedly bilked the taxpayer-funded program of $452 million â the highest dollar amount in a single Medicare bust in U.S. history.

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Obama Administration Embraces Video Games To Promote Fitness

Video games, long demonized by public health officials and parents for contributing to sedentary habits and obesity among children, scored a big win Monday night with a new partnership between the President's Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition and the video game industry's major trade group, the Entertainment...

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Sec. Kathleen Sebelius

Kathleen Sebelius was sworn in as the 21st Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on April 28, 2009.

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05/29/12 Freedom? Yeah, right! Source: The Newton Daily News - Newton IA Confronted with a "train wreck," the new archbishop of Baltimore implores us to "pray diligently as communities, as families and as individuals."
05/24/12 The Autism-Welfare Nexus Source: Investor's Business Daily If Steve Jobs were a child today, his school no doubt would drag his parents into the office and tell them he was so difficult and disruptive he needed to be examined by a doctor.
05/24/12 Timeline Of Events Related To Health Reform Mandate Source: The Georgia Bulletin - Atlanta GA Here is a timeline of key events related to the health reform law and the Department of Health and Human Services' requirement that contraceptives, including some abortion-inducing drugs, and sterilizations be covered free of charge in most health plans.
05/24/12 HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius addresses World... Source: News-Medical.Net The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has published on its website a transcript of a speech about women's health, delivered by HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to the World Medical Association in Geneva on Tuesday.
05/23/12 Affordable Care Act supports families of children with... Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced $4.9 million in Affordable Care Act funding to support Family-to-Family Health Information Centers, primarily non-profit organizations run by and for families with children with special health care needs.