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Secretary Kathleen Sebelius discusses abortion coverage in the Senate health bill with a representative from BlogHer on December 21, 2009

At Hot Air, Captain Ed has a tape of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius discussing how the so-called "abortion premium" in the Senate health care reform bill will work. Is she suggesting that everyone will have to pay an abortion premium, and that accounting tricks will be used just to make it look like you're not forced to pay for abortions? SEBELIUS: That would be an accounting procedure, but everybody in the exchange would do the same thing, whether you’re male or female, whether you’re 75 or 25, you would all set aside a portion of your premium...

Thank you for clearing that up, Secretary Sebelius! Here is video of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius explaining that the Senate Health Care Bill really does contain an "accounting measure" that takes funds from everyone to provide abortion coverage. Sebelius did everything she could not to use the word "abortion," but the interviewer was lost with Sebelius' convoluted explanation, so she finally used it at the end. Essentially, Sebelius was trying to assure pro-abortion activists that the bill actually covers abortions even though they tried to make it look like it does not. Nothing like transparency - more...

Dear Senator Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, Recently you were asked by a CNS reporter, “What part of the Constitution do you think gives Congress the authority to mandate that individuals have to purchase health insurance?” And you answered, “Well, I just think the Constitution charges Congress with the health and well-being of the people.” As CNS rightly reports: The words “health” and “well-being” do not appear anywhere in the Constitution. Senator Lincoln, words mean something. Dear President Obama, You have repeatedly told the American people your health care bill will not ration care. According to an editorial written by Senator...

Well, this Yuletide, there’s a new She Who Must be Obeyed. It’s our Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius. Secretary Sebelius is the star of “Harry Reid’s Polar Express.” The new health care bill Harry Reid just dumped off his sleigh weighs in at 19.8 pounds. It’s 2,079 pages of “shalls” and “musts” and “directs” Sen. Reid wants to have it all wrapped up and signed by Christmas. Secretary Sebelius gets all a bureaucrat could want under her tree in this bill. There are 1,697 grants of discretionary authority in Reid’s monster. She Who Must be Obeyed gets...

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This week's decision by a government panel to discourage most women in their 40s from having routine mammograms isn't just bad medicine, but also a small taste of what ObamaCare will mean. Yes, House and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius yesterday insisted that the new guidelines won't change what services the government will pay for. But that doesn't eliminate the impact of the finding at all -- and it does nothing about any future guidelines, based on the same approach, for less high-profile areas of medicine. Decades of medical research have proven the value of breast-cancer screening. I order mammograms...

Will the man who questioned Sen. Arlen Specter and Health and Human Services Secretary, Kathleen Sebelius...run for Congress? Rob Mitchell, seen in this video posed this question...Rob, a grass-roots, concerned citizen, Air Force ROTC, served in the Air Force, small-business owner and former military medical law attorney wants to run for Congress to unseat Patrick Murphy, a self-proclaimed, Blue Dog Democrat who takes marching orders from Nancy Pelosi. http://www.rob4congress.com/

(CNSNews.com) – House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.) said the Obama administration should not donate any of the nation’s H1N1 vaccine supply to foreign countries--as it originally planned to do--before there is enough vaccine to cover those Americans most at-risk from H1N1 flu. Conyers was asked by CNSNews.com outside the Capitol on Thursday whether the Obama administration should go ahead with its plans to donate some of the U.S. vaccine supply to foreign countries before the U.S. had enough vaccine to cover the 150 million Americans who are most at risk from the H1N1 virus. Conyers said, “The answer is...

Under the Senate Finance Committee bill, HHS Secretary Kathleen will determine the meaning of terms such as "physician services," "premium," "prescription drug coverage," "deductible," and "emergency room care.

(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...

Obama's late-night declaration of a nationwide public health emergency last night shouldn't be allowed to obscure the most important lesson of the developing swine flu crisis - The same government that only weeks ago promised abundant supplies of swine flu vaccine by mid-October will be running your health care system under Obamacare. On Sept. 13, Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services, told ABC's This Week program that the government was on schedule to deliver an "ample supply" of swine flu vaccine by mid-October: "We're on track to have an ample supply rolling by the middle of October. But...

Sebelius Says U.S. Will Donate Part of H1N1 Vaccine Supply to Foreign Nations Before Meeting This Nation’s DemandThursday, October 22, 2009 By Chris Neefus      ....... Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) asked Health and Human Service Secretary Kathleen Sebilius why the United States should get vaccinations ahead of people in other countries, including those in countries that are producing the vaccine for the United States. (CNSNews.com/Penny Starr)When Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) had his turn to question Sebelus, he raised the issue of whether the United States was "entitled" to the vaccine more than other nations. "Why should we be more entitled, the U.S. be more   entitled to...

A study released Tuesday from Purdue University said it may be too late for the H1N1 vaccine to be of any benefit to Americans, as they may contract the virus before the vaccine takes effect. The study said most people would be infected during the month of October at a time when the vaccine is not available to most Americans. H1N1 flu is running rampant throughout the U.S., and the country will have received only 25 percent of the vaccine that was expected by the end of October according to a Senate hearing this week. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said...

Reporting from Washington - Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told Congress on Wednesday that delays in the release of H1N1 flu shots show that the United States is too dependent on other countries for the manufacture of vaccines and that the technology to make them must be improved. Four of the five manufacturers of H1N1 vaccines are foreign companies -- a fact that alarmed lawmakers, who expressed concern about the ability of the federal government to secure enough vaccine to prevent the spread of the virus, known as swine flu.

In late July, the CDC abruptly advised states to stop testing for H1N1 flu, and stopped counting individual cases. The rationale given for the CDC guidance to forego testing and tracking individual cases was: why waste resources testing for H1N1 flu when the government has already confirmed there's an epidemic? Some public health officials privately disagreed with the decision to stop testing and counting, telling CBS News that continued tracking of this new and possibly changing virus was important because H1N1 has a different epidemiology, affects younger people more than seasonal flu and has been shown to have a higher...

Considering the name of this blog, we took great concern with the left Eye of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, which appeared puffy on Wednesday while she testified to a Senate committee.

<p>Considering the name of this blog, we took great concern with the left Eye of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, which appeared puffy on Wednesday while she testified to a Senate committee.</p> <p>Sebelius had a basal cell carcinoma removed from her forehead on Tuesday during a successful standard outpatient procedure, according to HHS spokeswoman Jenny Backus.</p>

Behold yet another political Rorschach test on video, from our friends at Verum Serum, who do a great job of finding them. When Kathleen Sebelius told an audience at the JFK Center at Harvard in 2007 that she was in favor of “a single-payer system, eventually,” does that negate the earlier statement that she finds dismantling the existing system to get there unproductive? You make the call:

In 2007, Sebelius said she was for a single payer system “eventually.” Mind you, this is the same person who will be establishing the “level playing field” between the government plan and private coverage. [VIDEO AT SITE] What a great bit of double talk from the director of HHS. How can the citizens of the US trust her to appropriately run the proposed health care scheme? Yes, it is looking more likely that it will take a conservative to clean up this mess in 2012. (Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net

"...Obama’s Director of Health & Abortion Services, Kathleen Sebelius, is bungling things already this flu season... ...flu vaccination clinics are being canceled...There’s no vaccine to give anyone!...And (the same is true with) H1N1... ..Senator Obama blasted the Bush administration when he felt they weren’t prepared to handle sudden and unexpected things like...Hurricane Katrina. Now,...his own administration is bungling something that is far from sudden and is expected...! Where is...Sebelius? Didn’t she know we’d need flu shots this year? Why the shortage? People also are dying from H1N1 Swine Flu and those vaccines are only trickling out so far in a...

Video. Does anyone question the ultimate motives of these folks? Setting atop the regulatory world that will define the constructs of the "level-laying field" that will allow private insurance companies to continue existing through mere "competition and choice" with the public behemoth - be it called a public option, federal co-op, or a trigger-induced public option (rather chilling 2d Amendment reference) - is the Secretary of Health & Human Services.

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."

“Until Your Department Rescinds Its Gag Order And Allows Seniors To Receive Information About Matters Before Congress, We Will Not Consent To Time Agreements On The Confirmation Of Any Nominees To Your Department Or Associated Agencies”

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...

America's first family will get vaccinated against swine flu when they are advised to, President Barack Obama said in a television interview broadcast Sunday. "We want to get vaccinated. We think it's the right thing to do. We will stand in line like everybody else and when folks say it's our turn, that's when we'll get it," Obama told CNN's "State of the Union." With the northern hemisphere entering its autumn flu season and infection rates again beginning to spike, many Americans are waiting for the first deliveries of (A)H1N1 vaccines, expected to come in the first weeks of October....

HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (CNS/Reuters) Wondering how pro-abortion Catholic politicians like Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius justify their public dissent from Church teachings on this most fundamental issue concerning the sanctity of human life? This blog will answer that question with SebeliusÂ’s own words, in an interview published yesterday by The Washington Post. Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City in Kansas requested in May 2008 that Sebelius not present herself for reception of Communion because of the public scandal caused by her support for legal abortion as governor of Kansas. HereÂ’s what Sebelius said about the matter,...

Here is video of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius giving NBC's Chuck Todd a lesson in sneeze etiquette after he sneezed during a update on how to stop the swine flu. (Video)

The Washington Post the other day posted a lengthy interview with Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services, and Catholic. A pertinent excerpt: MS. ROMANO: You are also a pro-choice Catholic, and I was reading some stories out of your home state recently where one of the bishops took an action. Can you tell us a little bit about that? SECRETARY SEBELIUS: Well, the Archbishop in the Kansas City area did not approve of my conduct as a public official and asked that I not present myself for communion. MS. ROMANO: What did you think about that? SECRETARY SEBELIUS:...

HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told me on ‘This Week’ the President will go beyond language in a House bill to make sure no public money goes to pay for abortions under health care reform. Abortion foes argue language in the House bill has too many holes and that taxpayers could potentially subsidize abortions. Sebelius told me there will be no uncertainty with the President's plan. “In fact recently the Catholic bishops came out, after the President’s statement saying that his statement about what he intends in the plan that no public fund would go to fund abortion and the fact...

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

Health and Human Services Department Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (R) speaks to members of the news media as Sesame Street character Elmo stands besides her in Washington, DC in May 2009. As US kids go back to school facing a likely resurgence of (A)H1N1 flu, the US government Tuesday enlisted Sesame Street muppets Elmo and Gordon in a new health campaign.

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...

Swine flu could infect half of the U.S. population and kill as many as 90,000, more than twice the number of casualties incurred in a typical seasonal flu. The White House said in a report today that President Obama has been encouraged to push for quicker and more widespread vaccine production and appoint a staffer to be in charge of the pandemic, the Wall Street Journal reported. "This isn't the flu that we're used to," said Kathleen Sebelius, U.S. Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. Thirty to 50 percent of the country's population will be infected in...

Here is video of President Obama saying Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius "didn't misspeak" last weekend when she suggested a "Public Option" is "not essential" to a Health Care Reform bill. He then went off on a long, convoluted answer that really did not address the issue of whether his administration has been flip-flopping back and forth between "essential" and "not essential." Obama said the press "got a little excited" and "folks on the Left got excited" too. Obama was speaking on the Michael Smerconish Radio Show, which was broadcast live from the White House today. . . . . (Watch...

President Barack Obama, trying to regain control of the health-care debate, will likely shift his pitch in September, White House and Democratic officials said, as he faces pressure from supporters to talk more about the moral imperative to provide health insurance to all Americans. The rethinking comes amid a struggle by the White House to clarify its view on a public insurance plan, which liberals see as a critical part of a health overhaul. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Sunday that a public plan isn't the "essential element" of a health bill, prompting sharp words from liberal...

Special to the Independent from the Journal of New Ulm MANKATO - In a telephone conference call with up to 1,000 constituents, Rep. Tim Walz and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius tackled questions about the health care reform legislation in Washington. Listeners were on listen-only status unless they signaled their wish to ask a question. Questions were prescreened by the moderator, Walz's Communications Director Meredith Salsbery. There were no raised voices, though some questions were contentious. Walz will be holding a regular town hall meeting at 6 p.m.. Thursday at Mankato East High School. Walz and Sebelius opened...

We've been watching with interest the various attempts at trying to recapture the initiative on the health care reform debate the Obama White House has been allowing to spin out of its control since mid-to-late July of this year. It's been quite a show, we'd say. From the curious decision to basically outsource the whole reform process to the Democratic leadership in the Congress all the way up to Barack Obama's contortions at recent town halls in Montana and Colorado in trying to sell a fatally-flawed plan, we're finding that more than a few conservative pundits are now taking great...

Here is video of Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius saying today that the White House not changed in its intent to get a "public option" passed as part of a Government Health Care Bill. Sebelius said it must have been a "slow news day" on Sunday, referring to media speculation that Obama was willing to drop the "public option." Sebelius herself is one of the officials who seemed to signal the public option might be dropped, saying it was "not essential." But what may be happening is that the trial balloon made it clear to the administration they will lose too...

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- During a weekend interview, a top Obama official said she wants the controversial end-of-life counseling proposal to remain in the final version of the health care bill Obama may receive. The counseling, which skeptics say amounts to "death panels" could promote assisted suicide and health are rationing.The sections are found in the House version of the health care bills and they call for giving doctors financial incentives to discuss end-of-life issues.Critics complain that doctors should not be paid to have the discussions and worry that they will promote assisted suicide in states where the practice is...

Administration Official says Sebilius misspoke............

Barack Obama backtracked last night on his controversial plan to offer Americans a government-run alternative to private health insurance. The U-turn came as the U.S. President sought to quell the growing row over Republican claims he was trying to socialise medicine. Democrats feared the Republican backlash - which included attacks on the NHS in Britain - could jeopardise all of the administration's plans for healthcare reform. Mr Obama wanted the government to run a health insurance organisation to help cover the 48million uninsured Americans. But last night Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told CNN that the government-run alternative 'is not the...

Whats going on at the White House? Who is in Charge? No Who is on First ! This morning it certainly looked as if President Obama was backing away from the "Public Option, when the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebilius said: ...Sebelius said the US Senate was proposing non-profit insurance cooperatives instead of government insurance, and suggested the administration might accept that. "I think what's important is choice and competition. And I'm convinced at the end of the day, the plan will have both of those. But that is not the essential element," she said in an...

Aug 16 2009, 9:11 pm by Marc Ambinder Administration Official: "Sebelius Misspoke." An administration official said tonight that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius "misspoke" when she told CNN this morning that a government run health insurance option "is not an essential part" of reform. This official asked not to be identified in exchange for providing clarity about the intentions of the President... A second official, Linda Douglass, director of health reform communications for the administration, said that President Obama ... had not backed away from that belief, and that he still wanted to see a public option in...

Here is video of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today on CNN where she was clearly backpeddling for the Obama Administration on the necessity for the Democrats' Health Care Bill to include a "Public Option." That has been their focus for months, and now she talks as if it should not be the focus of the legislation. She said on the table is a provision to insure the uninsured that would be done through "nonprofit insurance cooperatives." This is a sure sign that Obama knows he is losing the Health Care Debate. Look for them to be in...

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama's health secretary is suggesting the White House is ready to accept nonprofit insurance cooperatives instead of a government-run public option in a health overhaul plan. A Republican senator says that is worth looking at. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius says Obama still believes there should be choice and competition" in the health insurance market — but that a public option is "not the essential element."