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Mar 29 2021
Opinion
America’s Immigration Amnesia
In the early 2000s, Border Patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas were accustomed to encountering a few hundred children attempting to cross the American border alone each month. Some hoped to sneak into the country unnoticed; others readily presented themselves to officials in order to request asylum. The agents would transport the children, who were exhausted, dehydrated, and
The Atlantic
May 08 2014
News
Obama's New Health and Human Services Secretary in The Hot Seat on The Hill
Questions for the new Secretary of HHS
Townhall
Sep 29 2017
News
Tom Price resigns as Health Secretary over private jet use
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tom Price resigned Friday, after an uproar over his use of private jets for official business.
The Hill
Feb 04 2021
News
Biden Restores a Barrier to Opioid Addiction Treatment
Anonymous sources close to the White House say the Biden administration plans to reinstate special licensing requirements for physicians to prescribe buprenorphine, the most common medication used to treat opioid use disorder. Shortly before President Donald Trump left office, his administration updated federal guidelines to discontinue the "X-waiver," a regulation that required physicians to
Reason
Jul 15 2020
News
Hospitals told to send coronavirus data to Washington, not CDC
"The new faster and complete data system is what our nation needs to defeat the coronavirus," Department of Health and Human Services official says.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will "no longer control" the coronavirus data collection system from hospitals across the nation, a spokesman for U.S. Health and Human Services confirmed Tuesday night.
The New York
NBC News (Online)
Jun 13 2020
Analysis
Trump Administration Reverses Obama-Era Regulation That Redefined ‘Sex’
The Department of Health and Human Services has just announced a rule undoing an Obama-administration policy that had redefined “sex” to include “gender identity” and “termination of pregnancy” for purposes of nondiscrimination under the Affordable Care Act.
Section 1557 of Obamacare prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, or disability in health
National Review
Jul 16 2021
Opinion
The Government Should Stop Telling Facebook To Suppress COVID-19 'Misinformation'
The federal government is stepping up its effort to purge the internet of COVID-19 "misinformation." On Thursday, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki singled out a dozen specific anti-vaccine Facebook accounts and called on the platform to ban them.
"There's about 12 people who are producing 65 percent of vaccine misinformation on social media platforms," said Psaki. "All of them
Reason
Sep 02 2021
News
Exclusive: Government can't reach one-in-three released migrant kids
The U.S. government has lost contact with thousands of migrant children released from its custody, according to data obtained by Axios through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.
Why it matters: Roughly one-in-three calls made to released migrant kids or their sponsors between January and May went unanswered, raising questions about the government's ability to protect minors
Axios
Jul 16 2020
News
Public health groups denounce new Trump move sidelining CDC
A new Trump administration policy that bypasses the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for control of key coronavirus information is provoking outrage among public health experts.
Under the policy, quietly announced late last week, hospitals are now required to report directly to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on the number of COVID-19 patients each
The Hill
May 17 2014
News
Obama Administration Paves Way for Obamacare Bailout
A 436-page stack of regulations released on Friday by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) paved the way for the Obama administration to bailout health insurers who lost money on Obamacare. Originally, the Obama administration promised its so-called "risk corridors"--a program to shift money from profit-making insurers to underperforming insurers to keep down premiums--would be
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