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Washington Examiner reports on the demo proposed health care bill. "Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius would be awarded unprecedented new powers under the proposal, including the authority to decide what medical care should be covered by insurers as well as the terms and conditions of coverage and who should receive it...The HHS secretary would also have the power to decide where abortion is allowed under a government-run plan." The end result would be the federal government having direct control over the insurance market as opposed to the current system where the states have the discretionary power to regulate...

Health Care: A government task force has decided that women need fewer mammograms and later in life. Shouldn't that be between patient and physician? We have seen the future of health care, and it doesn't work. We have warned repeatedly that the net results of health care bills before Congress will be higher demand, fewer doctors, more cost control, all leading to rationing. New recommendations issued by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) regarding breast cancer and the necessity for early and frequent mammograms do not convince us otherwise. Just six months ago, the panel, which works under the...

The government paid more than $47 billion in questionable Medicare claims including medical treatment showing little relation to a patient's condition, wasting taxpayer dollars at a rate nearly three times the previous year. Excerpts of a new federal report, obtained by The Associated Press, show a dramatic increase in improper payments in the $440 billion Medicare program that has been cited by government auditors as a high risk for fraud and waste for 20 years. It's not clear whether Medicare fraud is actually worsening. Much of the increase in the last year is attributed to a change in the Health...

(CNSNews.com) – A White House official told CNSNews.com on Tuesday that the Obama administration's commitment to donate 10 percent of the U.S. supply of H1N1 vaccine to other countries will not necessarily begin after 40 million doses are procured, as Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told CNSNews.com and the Senate Homeland Security Committee last week. On Saturday, three days after Sebelius made her remarks about the U.S. donating some of its vaccine to foreign countries, President Obama declared the H1N1 epidemic a national emergency. Calling Sebelius’ remarks “a slight miscommunication,” the White House official told CNSNews.com that the...

Note: The following text is a quote: News Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, October 23, 2009 HHS Awards $17 Million in a New National Initiative to Fight Health Care-Associated Infections HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced the award of $17 million to fund projects to fight costly and dangerous health care-associated infections, or HAIs. “When patients go to the hospital, they expect to get better, not worse,” Secretary Sebelius said. “Eliminating infections is critical to making care safer for patients and to improving the overall quality and safety of the health care system. We know that it can be done,...

"These ideals, when voiced by generations of citizens, are what made it possible for me to stand here today. These ideals are what made it possible for the people in this room to live freely and openly when for most of history that would have been inconceivable. That is the promise of America. That is the promise we are called to fulfill. And day by day, law by law, mind by changing mind, that is the promise we are fulfilling." – President Obama, HRC National Dinner, October 10, 2009 I came to work in the White House because I thought...

<p>Senate Finance ranking member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is raising concerns that a Department of Health and Human Services Web site that urges visitors to send an e-mail to President Barack Obama praising his health care reform plan may violate rules against government-funded propaganda.</p>

Questions in regards health care issues should be asked, but different questions. So typical of a promotion designed by people who spend other people’s money. Kathleen Sabelius’ Health and Human Services Department has been spending your money running these promos on Monday Night Football and elsewhere. They encourage folks to ask their doctors questions. The PSA then directs you to the HHS web site to learn the 10 questions you should ask.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius appealed anew Wednesday for widespread inoculation against a surging swine flu threat, calling the vaccine "safe and secure." Sebelius unconditionally vouched for the safety of the vaccine, saying it "has been made exactly the same way seasonal vaccine has been made, year in and year out." Appearing on morning news shows to step up the Obama administration's campaign for vaccinations, Sebelius said that "the adverse effects are minimal. ... We know it's safe and secure. ... This is definitely is a safe vaccine for people to get."

WASHINGTON (AP) - Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius appealed anew Wednesday for widespread inoculation against a surging swine flu threat, calling the vaccine "safe and secure." Sebelius unconditionally vouched for the safety of the vaccine, saying it "has been made exactly the same way seasonal vaccine has been made, year in and year out." Appearing on morning news shows to step up the Obama administration's campaign for vaccinations, Sebelius said that "the adverse effects are minimal. ... We know it's safe and secure. ... This is definitely is a safe vaccine for people to get."

Oct 5, 2009 — Three stories touching on philosophy of science were reported recently.  They show that simplistic ideas, and even terms deployed, can be misleading.  That’s why philosophers still have a role in curbing the pretensions of scientists, and clarifying scientific issues and terms lest policy-makers and the public get wrong ideas. Are all invasive species bad?:  We are taught to think that “alien” animals or plants introduced into another country pose a threat.  Often they do, but Mark Davis at New Scientist reminded readers that the honeybee was introduced into the Americas.  He said, “you may be surprised...

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23RD, 2009 AT 5:51 PM “Mom, It's Hokum. It's a Bunch of Malarkey.” Posted by Jesse Lee [ SNIPPET: "At a town hall meeting today with seniors in Silver Spring, MD, Vice President Joe Biden and Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius discussed the release of a new report, "Health Insurance Reform and Medicare: Making Medicare Stronger for America's Seniors." The Vice President was perfectly clear: "Nobody is going to mess with your benefits. All we do is make it better for people on Medicare." He joked about having to disabuse his own mother of myths...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's decision to go to the Senate floor on Tuesday to call out the Obama administration for using the full power of a federal regulatory agency to suppress free speech -- specifically, to silence Humana's predictions about the impact of proposed ObamaCare cuts to the Medicare Advantage program -- led ABC, but not CBS or NBC, to air a story on the “gag order.” ABC's story began with a McConnell soundbite (“'Shut up,' the government says, 'don't communicate with your customers. Be quiet and get in line,'”), before reporter Jonathan Karl explained McConnell was referring to...

The swine flu vaccine appears to work for adults with just one shot and within 10 days, a major boost to the widespread immunization campaign that officials are planning to protect people against the first influenza pandemic in 41 years, researchers reported. Preliminary data from an Australian study found that a single standard dose could produce an immune response in more than 96 percent of recipients, and U.S. studies indicate that the protection occurs within eight to 10 days, scientists reported. The vaccine also appeared safe. The eagerly awaited findings mark the first results from a flurry of studies that...

U.S. President Barack Obama make remarks on preparedness and response efforts surrounding the 2009 H1N1 flu virus beside Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, September 1, 2009. REUTERS/Jim Young

The White House has dispatched the lovable Sesame Street resident Elmo to spread the word on ways to ward off the H1N1 flu, but for those who find the red, fluffy Muppet a little too soft, there's Dr. John D. Clarke -- the MD who can rap. In a minute-long video, the Long Island doctor spits rhymes about washing one's hands and using hand sanitizer Clarke is one of 10 finalists competing for a $2,500 prize from the Department of Health and Human Services for the best H1N1 prevention video. After picking the finalists from more than 200 entries, the...

Tom Ridge, former US Secretary of Homeland Security, has written in his new book that he was pressured by then Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Attorney General John Ashcroft to "raise the terror alert to help Bush win re-election in 2004." He explains that "Bush's approval ratings typically went up when the threat level was raised, adding that Ashcroft and Rumsfeld pushed to elevate it during a vigorous discussion." After a number of former Bush administration officials called these claims "nonsense," Tom Ridge has decided to flip-flop on the issue, writes the USA Today. He now says that this...

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Tuesday that a massive school closing wouldn't stop the spread of the swine flu virus, saying vaccinations must be the defense against a menace that one report said could infect up to half of the population. "What we know is that we have the virus right now traveling around the United States," Sebelius said in a nationally broadcast interview. "And having children in a learning situation is beneficial ... What we learned last spring is that shutting a school down sort of pre-emptively doesn't stop the virus from spreading." Sebelius appeared on...

Recovery Act Allocates $1.1 Billion for Comparative Effectiveness Research The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services today announced the members of the Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research. Authorized by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), the new Council will help coordinate research and guide investments in comparative effectiveness research funded by the Recovery Act. “Comparative effectiveness research can improve care for all Americans and is an important element of President Obama’s health reform plan,” said HHS Spokeswoman Jenny Backus. “President Obama is committed to openness and transparency and the Coordinating Council will host open meetings and...

Note: The following text is a quote: News Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, August 12, 2009 HHS Deputy Secretary Bill Corr today announced the release of $13.4 million for loan repayments to nurses who agree to practice in facilities with critical shortages and for schools of nursing to provide loans to students who will become nurse faculty. The funds were made available by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), signed Feb. 17, 2009, by President Obama. “The need for more nurses is great. Over the next decade, nurse retirements and an aging U.S. population, among other factors, will create...

Here is a link to a swine/h1n1 flu conference in D.C. they are having next week. http://new-fields.com/ISFC/agenda.php Here is a link to the brochure for the conference. http://new-fields.com/ISFC/brochure.pdf Breakout session #2 "unwillingness to follow government orders" Breakout session #6 "control and diffuse social unrest and public disorder" "isolate prisons & other facilities" Breakout session #7 "effectively undertake mass vaccinations" "enforce quarantines" Breakout session #8 "control traffic, evacuation & mass transportation"

39 Belmont Street 9:30 http://maps.google.com/maps?sourceid=navclient&rlz=1T4RNTN_enUS338US338&q=39+Belmont+St.,+Hartford&um=1&ie=UTF-8&split=0&gl=us&ei=g8R2Sry8J6HBtweugdmWCQ&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=title&resnum=1 Can we put this back in breakng news with new headline? KATHLEEN SEBELIUS IN HARTFORD 9:30: ADDDRESS HERE

Kathleen Sebilius is supposed to be in Connecticut tomorrow, MONDAY WHERE? WHEN??

Note: The following text is a quote: News Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, July 28, 2009 Secretary Sebelius Makes Recovery Act Funding Available to Expand Health Professions Training HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced the availability of $200 million to support grants, loans, loan repayment, and scholarships to expand the training of health care professionals. The funds are expected to train approximately 8,000 students and credentialed health professionals by the end of fiscal year 2010. Today’s funds are part of the $500 million allotted to HHS’ Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), to address workforce shortages under the American Recovery...

Today, as the Administration holds a day-long summit on H1N1, we're excited to announce that HHS is launching a new PSA campaign contest to encourage more Americans to get involved in the nation's flu preparedness efforts by making a 15, 30 or 60 second video Public Service Announcement (PSA). The goal of the contest is to tap into the nation's creativity to help educate Americans about how to plan for and prevent the spread of the flu and the H1N1 virus.   The videos can be funny, cute, dramatic, but most of all, they should help make a positive impact....

U.S. swine flu vaccinations could begin in October with children among the first in line — at their local schools — the Obama administration said Thursday as the president and his Cabinet urged states to figure out now how they'll tackle the virus' all-but-certain resurgence. "We may end up averting a crisis. That's our hope," said President Barack Obama, who took time away from the G-8 summit in Italy to telephone another summit back home — the 500 state and local health officials meeting to prepare for swine flu's fall threat. No final decision has been made on whether to...

A rule that prevents many HIV-positive immigrants and travelers from entering the United States will likely be lifted before the year is up, after the Department of Health and Human Services earlier this month recommended changing the regulation. Immigration and HIV/AIDS advocacy groups have been working to repeal the 22-year-old rule, which they call discriminatory, dangerous, and debilitating to the strength of the U.S. scientific community. A large number of foreigners with the human immunodeficiency virus would benefit from the change, the groups say, when these individuals would finally be able to enter the country to see loved ones, attend...

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Friday that Americans need a new government-sponsored insurance plan to guarantee choice and competition — especially in rural America. “What the president feels is important is to have some competition and to have a choice,” Sebelius said at a roundtable discussion in Omaha, where she delivered a sales pitch for President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul. Her appearance was part of an aggressive new administration push to build a groundswell of public support for action by Congress in time for Obama to sign legislation in the fall. Obama himself brought the same...

Next steps toward an H1N1 influenza vaccine HHS Secretary Kathleen is directing nearly $1.1 billion in existing preparedness funds to manufacture two important parts of a vaccine for the Strategic National Stockpile, to produce small amounts of potential vaccine for research, and to perform clinical research over the summer.

“Kathleen Sebelius, the Kansas governor who sees her mission as overhauling U.S. health care, was confirmed today as secretary of Health and Human Services, the agency directing U.S. efforts against swine flu. ” According to Bill O’Reilly, Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius, Obama’s nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services, “supported late term abortions by vetoing a bill that would have forced late term abortionist Dr. George Tiller (who has killed thousands of late term fetuses) to provide a specific medical reason for destroying a viable fetus.” O’Reilly has uncovered a list of monies that Dr. Tiller gave to Governor...

Republican Senators are unlikely to organize a filibuster against Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius (D), President Obama's HHS secretary nominee, bolstering the chances that she will be confirmed by a full Senate vote, CQ HealthBeat reports. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, on Wednesday said that although he plans to vote against Sebelius during the full Senate vote, he will not vote to sustain a filibuster. Grassley also suggested that Republican leaders might not attempt to organize one. "It's going to move ahead. And if she gets 51 votes, she is our nominee," Grassley said....

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 23 /Christian Newswire/ -- Opposition to the nomination of Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius as Secretary of Health and Human Services continues to grow as the Senate is flooded with calls, faxes, and e-mails from grassroots campaigns led by an increasing number of conservative, pro-family groups. This opposition exploded when Operation Rescue made public, and the Associated Press reported, that Sebelius had grossly underreported to the Senate Finance Committee the amount of financial support she had received from controversial late-term abortionist George Tiller. "We have been urging our supporters to call, e-mail, and fax their senators, and I...

Usually when a president picks a friend of a big but controversial industry to run a federal department that regulates that same industry, some eyebrows are raised. The press wonders how independent the nominee could be. Senators fret over the long financial relationship between the nominee and the controversial industry. In time, the White House quietly withdraws the nomination and insiders chortle that the administration never should have made such a foolish nomination. That's why the chief executive of Merck & Co. doesn't get asked to run the Food and Drug Administration, or the state governor who raked in money...

HHS pushes "Health Reform This Year" Where is the Obama administration's sense of propriety? Apparently it's wrapped up in victory-at-any-cost mode if the website for the federal government's Health and Human Services is concerned. For, if you go to the HHS.gov website, you'll see a banner that advertises for a political issue, instead of a legitimate government "service." There you'll see a banner/button pushing the political cause of nationalized health care. Worse, clicking on that button takes you to a faux petition style email page where you can "state your support" to the president for his "commitment to health care...

Tuesday April 14, 2009 Sebelius Caught Underreporting Campaign Contributions from Notorious Abortionist: HHS Nomination May be in Jeopardy By Kathleen GilbertWASHINGTON, D.C., April 14, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Washington career of Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius may be in danger after it was revealed that the Health nominee reported only a fraction of her campaign contributions from Kansas' late-term abortionist George Tiller. At least one GOP senator reportedly said the issue has raised doubts among Republican senators about the governor, a well-known champion of abortion that Obama picked to head the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS). After...

Note: The following text is a quote: THE BRIEFING ROOM THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ------------------------------------------------ For Immediate Release April 8, 2009 EXECUTIVE ORDER ESTABLISHMENT OF THE WHITE HOUSE OFFICE OF HEALTH REFORM By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in the interest of providing all Americans access to affordable and high-quality health care, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. Policy. Reforming the health care system is a key goal of my Administration. The health care system suffers from serious and...

Go to link, click on "go" and send pre-written letter.

Just two days after she revealed that she owed nearly $8,000 in back taxes, Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius faced largely friendly questioning from the Senate Finance Committee Thursday – with no questions at all asked about her tax situation. The committee has jurisdiction over tax issues. What’s more, only 11 senators – seven Democrats and four Republicans – out of a total 23 committee members had questions for Sebelius, who is President Obama’s choice to be secretary of health and human services. The sparse attendance and short, cordial exchanges between senators and Sebelius was surprising, since the same committee grilled...

And by “unbelievable,” I of course mean inevitable. Remember, she was the “safe” choice for HHS after Daschle got dinged for — that’s right — not paying his taxes. By CBS’s count, this is the sixth nominee to have tax trouble. Yes, really.

The Democratic Party is overflowing with scandal. Not one person in the mainstream media is connecting the dots and proving that the party of change is actually the party of ethics problems, so let me give it a shot: * The Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee (Chris Dodd) took "funky" loans from one of the banks his committee is supposedly regulation. The Chairman of the House Banking Committee (Barney Frank) refused regulation on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac until it was much too late. This may or may not have to do with the fact that his former lover...

(NaturalNews) Just how trustworthy are medical review boards that review and approve medical devices? In a Government Accountability Office (GAO) sting, investigators were able to invent and register a fictitious review board with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), complete with a fictitious panel of doctors and a canine president named "Truper Dawg" (named after a real pet dog that had long since passed away). Names of other board members on the fictitious organization approved by the Department of Health and Human Services included "April Phuls" and "Timothy Wittless." These names apparently did not raise any suspicions at...

American People Say Health Care System is Broken, Highlight Need for Action This Year on Health Reform Americans expressed serious concerns regarding health care in a new report released today by the Department of Health and Human Services. The report, Americans Speak on Health Reform: Report on Health Care Community Discussions, summarizes comments from the thousands of Americans who hosted and participated in Health Care Community Discussions across the country and highlights the need for immediate action to reform health care. The report is available on a new Web site dedicated to health reform: www.healthreform.gov. Unveiled today, the Web site...

The full extent of the horrific conditions at an NHS hospital where hundreds may have died because of 'appalling' care was laid bare yesterday. Dehydrated patients were forced to drink out of flower vases, while others were left in soiled linen on filthy wards. Relatives of patients who died at Staffordshire General Hospital told how they were so worried by the standard of care they slept in chairs on the wards. The 'shocking' catalogue of failures was released yesterday after an independent investigation by the Healthcare Commission. It found Government waiting time targets and a bid to win foundation...

According to Bill O’Reilly, Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius, Obama’s nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services, supported late term abortions by vetoing a bill that would have forced late term abortionist Dr. George Tiller (who has killed thousands of 3rd trimester fetuses) to provide a specific medical reason for destroying a viable fetus. O’Reilly has uncovered a list of monies that Dr. Tiller gave to Governor Sebelius in donations, making this a most reprehensible political relationship, destroying human life for money. And Governor Sebelius is the best the Obama administration can do for Secretary of HHS?

Note: The following text is a quote: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/09/03/02/Sebelius-at-HHS/ THE BRIEFING ROOM • THE BLOG Monday, March 2nd, 2009 at 1:11 pm Sebelius at HHS Overhauling our health care system is going to take the will to fight entrenched special interests and lobbyists, the patience to work across party lines, and a little Kansas common sense. "Kathleen Sebelius has a remarkable intellect, unquestioned integrity, and the kind of pragmatic wisdom you’ll tend to find in a Kansan," President Obama said as he announced the Kansas Governor as his choice to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. "I know she...

Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius yesterday accepted President Obama's request to become his secretary of health and human services, stepping into a central role in the new administration's ambitious effort to overhaul the nation's health-care system.

Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius, a Democrat, has agreed to become Secretary of Health and Human Services in the Obama Administration. Sebelius served as executive director and chief lobbyist for the Kansas Trial Lawyers Association (now Kansas Association for Justice) from 1977-1986. Before being elected governor in 2002, she also served as Kansas Insurance Commissioner, an elective office. During the 2007 legislative session, Sebelius vetoed S.B. 55, which -- in her terms -- sought to exempt the entire health care industry from the Kansas Consumer Protection Act. She signed a follow-up bill, H.B. 2451. From her office's news relase: HB 2451...

WASHINGTON – President Obama asked Gov. Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas to become his nominee for secretary of health and human services on Saturday, tapping a red-state ally to help him push through his ambitious plan to remake the nation’s health care system.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/President-Obama-Selects-Top-Rural-Health-Care-Advocate-to-Oversee-Key-HHS-Agency/ Note: The following text is a quote: THE BRIEFING ROOM Friday, February 20th, 2009 at 3:45 pm President Obama Selects Top Rural Health Care Advocate to Oversee Key HHS Agency THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ________________________ For Immediate Release February 20, 2009 President Obama today announced the appointment of one of the nation’s top rural health care professionals as Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). Dr. Mary Wakefield, Director of the Center for Rural Health at the University of North Dakota, will oversee this critical agency, which helps to deliver health care to...

SEBELIUS SPINS HERSELF February 20, 2009Word that Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius might be tapped as the new secretary of health and human services has a lot of people talking.  Catholic League president Bill Donohue is one of them:“Kathleen Sebelius is a master at spinning herself. In 2002, she described herself as ‘a practicing Catholic.’ But not always. For example, she opposes capital punishment and animal abuse, but supports abortion.  Evidently, being a ‘practicing Catholic’ allows her to protect serial murderers, cats and dogs, but not innocent unborn children. But she does not claim ignorance. In 2006, she said, ‘My...