When Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius resigned last week, it was seen as an inevitable attempt by the Obama Administration to blame someone for their embarrassingly "botched" roll-out of the Affordable Care Act's healthcare.gov. But Sebelius isn't done yet: she could be considering a run for…
Hello everyone, I am here to ruin your week by telling you the most tragic thing you’ve ever heard (there’s like, a very small bright spot at the end, but still). On Tuesday, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius determined that she would not intervene in a case involving a young Pennsylvania…
Lots of important adults — judges, doctors, the POTUS himself — have fervent opinions on whether the morning-after pill should be available to girls of all ages without a prescription and point-of-sale or age restrictions, yet no one ever asks teenagers themselves what they think. So we did.
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The dark clouds hanging over women's health clinics in Texas have just unleashed a torrential storm on the state's low-income women: in response to Texas' refusal to allow Planned Parenthood clinics to participate in a state program that provides 100,000 of the state's poorer women with health services such as birth…
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Have you felt a hole in your heart lately? Is it, by any chance, in the shape of Michele Bachmann? Her particular brand of crazy has been sadly absent from our lives since she abandoned her campaign for president. And, frankly, we've all gotten a little lost without her. Don't get me wrong, we've still got plenty of…
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced today that her department will begin collecting data on the health of a variety of groups, including LGBT Americans, as a way of addressing some of the health inequalities these groups may face. Says Sebelius,
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How to address the 219-212 passage of a universal health-care reform bill that the President calls an answer to ‘the call of history'? Why, by talking about the pols' outfits, a la Singin in the Rain's "Beautiful Girls!"
We haven't even finished the battle over Stupak-Pitts, but there's a new fight brewing. Monday's new recommendations on breast cancer screenings have finally saturated the media - and everyone from the GOP to Gail Collins is weighing in.
At a press conference about the H1N1 virus yesterday, Kathleen Sebelius chastised NBC's Chuck Todd for sneezing into his hand, saying "We'll have Elmo give Chuck a "special" briefing... Elmo knows how to sneeze." Video at left. [Buzzfeed]
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Over the weekend, Crystal Lee Sutton, labor activist and inspiration for the movie Norma Rae, died of cancer after struggling with her insurance company, which had delayed her treatment. So why is the current health care discussion focusing on abortion?
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In the Onion, "Kathleen Sebelius" explains that 74% of camping kids fall victim to killer ghosts, wolves, or "Old Man Greenly, who lost his hand in a gruesome mill accident and now seeks his bloody revenge." [The Onion]
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We haven't been that impressed with efforts to find "common ground" on abortion — and, funnily enough, neither is Focus on the Family president Jim Daly, who doesn't think Obama is doing nearly enough to deprive women of their choices.
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"...the women of the administration are still waiting for their first girls' night out on the town," 'reports' US News. Oh really? Looks like someone made up a "story", then bothered Janet Napolitano - who certainly has more important things to do - for comment. Forced sistertude! [US News]
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Despite having sold out about the pro-choice movement by signing Kansas' pre-abortion ultrasound bill, anti-abortion activists are still trying to rally Senators against Kathleen Sebelius' nomination to the Department of Health and Human Services. [The Hill]
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Kansas Governor and Secretary of Health and Human Services nominee Kathleen Sebelius signed into law today a bill requiring that women be able to see ultrasounds or hear fetal heartbeats before their abortions. [NY Times]
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The New York Times is reporting that President Obama is set to formally announce Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius as his latest nominee for the position of Secretary of Health and Human Services on Monday.
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