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Trump Aims to Increase Value and Decrease Costs of Health Care, HHS Secretary Says
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said Thursday that the Trump administration is working to deregulate health care with the goals of reforming the individual insurance market, lowering prescription drug prices, and creating a “value-based” health care system. “Today, fixing American health care requires disrupting government-dictated systems, building new ones that encourage choice and… -
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Exclusive: 56 Lawmakers Ask HHS Probe of Planned Parenthood’s Response to Child Sexual Abuse
A group of 56 lawmakers led by Rep. Vicky Hartzler, R-Mo., is urging federal officials to investigate the extent to which Planned Parenthood fails to report suspected sexual abuse of minors. In a letter Thursday to the Department of Health and Human Services, Hartzler and 55 other Republicans ask the agency to probe whether Planned… -
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HHS Pushes Back Against Narrative That It ‘Lost’ 1,500 Alien Children
The federal agency responsible for caring for unaccompanied alien children is pushing back against accusations that it has lost nearly 1,500 of them, knocking critics that “confuse and spread misinformation” about the issue. Most of the children were not lost, but were temporarily unaccounted for because their sponsors did not respond to inquiries from government… -
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Daily Signal Exclusive: HHS Secretary Alex Azar on 3 Steps to Combating the Opioid Crisis
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar spoke to The Daily Signal’s Rob Bluey about the Trump administration’s response to the opioid crisis. Azar spoke Thursday at Generation Next, a White House forum for millennials. An edited transcript of his Daily Signal interview is below. Rob Bluey: You were with President Trump earlier this week in… -
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Tom Price Resigns as HHS Secretary
President Donald Trump accepted the resignation of Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price on Friday, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced late Friday afternoon. Price had been under fire for his use of private charter flights. “Secretary of Health and Human Services Thomas Price offered his resignation earlier today and the… -
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Why Is HHS Contraception Order Still Standing?
After meeting with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on May 4, I sat in the Rose Garden and listened as the president promised the Little Sisters of the Poor that their “long ordeal” with the government’s contraceptive mandate “would soon be over.” Yet here we are, nearly three months later, and the Health and Human… -
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Pro-Life Advocates Optimistic as One of Their Own Gets Key HHS Job
President Donald Trump’s appointment of a national pro-life leader to serve as the top communicator at the Department of Health and Human Services is great news for the pro-life cause, leaders at associated organizations say. Charmaine Yoest, longtime head of the group Americans United for Life, will assume the responsibilities of assistant secretary for public… -
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Tom Price Clears Senate, Ready to Dismantle Obamacare as HHS Chief
The Senate voted 52-47 early Friday morning to confirm Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., a surgeon who has fought to repeal Obamacare, as the 23rd secretary of health and human services. Not a single Democrat voted for Price, an outspoken critic of Obamacare who is expected to oversee the dismantling and replacement of the health care law… -
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Trump’s HHS Nominee Holds Firm on Importance of Patient Choice
On Tuesday, the Senate Finance Committee completed a confirmation hearing for Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., to become America’s next secretary of health and human services. Price had previously undergone a confirmation hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. Combining the two hearings, Price underwent almost eight hours of tough questioning on the Affordable… -
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HHS Nominee Tom Price Urges Medicaid Changes to Improve Health Care
President Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of health and human services pushed Tuesday for changes to Medicaid, telling senators the program is in need of repair. Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., testified before the Senate Finance Committee, where Democrats pressed him for details on Republicans’ plan to replace Obamacare. Their questions included whether that plan would… -
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HHS Pick Tom Price Pledges to Meet ‘Needs of All’ After Obamacare Repeal
Rep. Tom Price, who is President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, countered Democrats’ claims about the consequences of repealing Obamacare, telling senators that “nobody’s interested in pulling the rug out from under anybody.” Price, R-Ga., appeared Wednesday before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee in a… -
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While Senate Democrats Attack Trump’s HHS Pick Over Health Care Stock, These Democrats Hold It Too
At least three Democratic senators own significant health care industry stocks that could undermine their Senate leadership’s push against the nomination of Rep. Tom Price, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee as secretary of health and human services, The Daily Caller News Foundation’s Investigative Group has learned. Price, a Georgia Republican, has been harshly criticized by Democrats… -
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What You Need to Know About Tom Price, Trump’s Pick for HHS Secretary
President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday that Rep. Tom Price, a Republican from Georgia, is his pick for secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. “Chairman Price, a renowned physician, has earned a reputation for being a tireless problem solver and the go-to expert on health care policy, making him the ideal choice to… -
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Why HHS Says It Doesn’t Want to Spend Anti-Ebola Funds to Fight Zika
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has unspent money left over from the fight in 2013 against the Ebola epidemic overseas. But HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell has not deployed that money to combat the coming Zika virus because of what she considers prior commitments. House Republicans want to repurpose old Ebola money for… -
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HHS Chief: Congress Must Fix Obamacare If Supreme Court Unravels Law
Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell said Wednesday if the Supreme Court unravels federal subsidies in the Affordable Care Act it will be up to Congress and the states to come up with a new plan. Burwell said the Obama administration would do “everything” it can to communicate with states should the court decide… -
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Audit: HHS Failure to Screen Obamacare Contract Recipients Cost Taxpayers $400M
An internal investigation into how the federal government awarded contracts for developing and building the Affordable Care Act’s most important public element — the online exchanges that were to be used by millions of Americans to purchase health insurance — has found the process was flawed. The investigation showed that The Department of Health and Human Services… -
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Obama Administration’s Eighth Try on HHS Mandate and Religious Liberty Still Fails
The eighth time still doesn’t seem to be the charm for government bureaucrats. On Friday, the Obama administration released yet another revision to the Department of Health and Human Services mandate that requires employers to provide coverage of abortion-inducing drugs, contraception and sterilization. Many are wondering if the government has actually protected the religious freedom… -
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Q&A: Why Hahn Family Is Glad They Joined Hobby Lobby to Fight Obamacare’s HHS Mandate
Media coverage of the two Supreme Court cases challenging Obamacare’s HHS mandate for employers to provide workers with “free” coverage of abortion-inducing drugs largely focused on Hobby Lobby, the arts and crafts chain founded by the Greens, an evangelical Christian family. The case of another family-owned business also was heard by the high court, though… -
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HHS Mandate: Only the Beginning of Obamacare’s Conscience Problems
Any day now the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule in the case of Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood Specialties—family-owned businesses that have gone to court to challenge a provision under Obamacare that requires them and nearly all other employers to cover abortion-inducing drugs, contraception and sterilization, regardless of their religious beliefs. As these… -
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Senate Confirms Sylvia Burwell as New HHS Secretary, 78-17
The Senate today confirmed Sylvia Mathews Burwell as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services by a vote of 78 to 17, making her the nation’s new lead figure in implementing Obamacare. “Sylvia is a proven manager who knows how to deliver results, and over her career she has built relationships with Democrats…