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Nov 16 2014
News
HHS secretary: HealthCare.gov working well, 100,000 signed up this weekend
About 100,000 Americans have visited HealthCare.gov since Saturday and submitted new applications for health insurance coverage, Health and Human Service Secretary Sylvia Burwell said Sunday.
Obamacare’s second open enrollment period began over the weekend, and thus far officials say the website hasn’t been plagued by the same troubles that turned it into a punch line last year.
Washington Times
Sep 03 2020
Analysis
HHS spokesperson Michael Caputo pushed COVID-19 conspiracy theories and praised white supremacists in unearthed podcast
In a podcast unearthed by Media Matters, Department of Health and Human Services spokesperson Michael Caputo spread baseless conspiracy theories about the coronavirus, praised white supremacist Milo Yiannopoulos, and said Democrats are “counting” on COVID-19 fatalities in order to win the election against President Donald Trump.
On his now-defunct show Still Standing with Michael Caputo
Media Matters
Nov 13 2017
Headline Roundup
Trump Selects Alex Azar as HHS Nominee
President Donald Trump named former Eli Lilly & Co. executive Alex Azar to lead the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services after the prior secretary, Tom Price, resigned amid blowback over his taxpayer-funded private jet travel.
Fox News (Online News)


Apr 03 2020
News
After Kushner says 'it's our stockpile,' HHS website changed to echo his comments on federal crisis role
It was a telling moment in the rising tensions between the Trump White House and state governors desperate for medical equipment to deal with the exploding coronavirus crisis.
At Thursday's briefing on how the government is responding, Trump's senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner scolded states for not building up their own stockpiles, saying that the "the notion of the federal
ABC News (Online)
Dec 12 2022
News
Biden Administration Approves Washington’s Plan To Subsidize Illegal Immigrants’ Healthcare
The Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Treasury approved a program Friday that will allow the state of Washington to use federal pass-through dollars to subsidize the healthcare of illegal immigrants.
The state’s Washington Healthplanfinder, created under Section 1332 of the Affordable Care Act, will be subsidized by the federal government from 2024 – 2029, according to
The Daily Caller
Nov 14 2022
Opinion
In a Mad Midterm Scramble, Federal Departments Line Up To Promote Abortion
With the midterms looming, liberal Democrats look set to take a shellacking—due in large part to soaring consumer prices, record-high inflation, and an unstable stock market. Voters rank the economy as their top concern.
Yet the president and his allies are placing all their bets on abortion on demand—until birth—as the defining issue of this election cycle. They even oppose the born-
The Heritage Foundation
May 10 2021
Headline Roundup
Biden HHS Restores Trans Health Protections in Reversal of Trump Policy
The Biden administration will reverse Trump-era rules excluding transgender people from the Affordable Care Act’s anti-discrimination protections, the Department of Health and Human Services announced Monday. Specifically, HHS will interpret Section 1557 of the ACA, which prevents healthcare discrimination on the basis of “race, color, national origin, sex, age or disability,” to include
NPR (Online News)


Jul 15 2020
Headline Roundup
Trump Administration Tells Hospitals to Send Coronavirus Data to HHS, Not CDC
The Trump Administration has ordered hospitals to bypass the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and send all coronavirus patient information to a central database at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in Washington.
Health officials are raising concerns that the data will be politicized or withheld from the public, while HHS says the CDC's system of
Newsmax (News)


Feb 28 2020
Headline Roundup
Whisteblower Says HHS Workers Weren't Equipped to Manage Coronavirus Patients
A senior Health and Human Services official told the Office of Special Counsel, an independent federal watchdog, that HHS employees sent to help extract the first Americans from Wuhan, China — genesis of the coronavirus — were not properly equipped or trained to handle high-risk disease patients. After raising concerns, the anonymous official said HHS threatened to fire them if they did not
Washington Post


Oct 14 2022
News
Nearly 130,000 unaccompanied migrant children entered the U.S. shelter system in 2022, a record
Nearly 130,000 migrant children entered the U.S. government's shelter system in fiscal year 2022, an all-time high driven by record arrivals of unaccompanied minors along the southern border, according to internal federal figures obtained by CBS News.
The tally surpassed the 122,000 unaccompanied minors that federal shelters received in fiscal year 2021, when the Biden administration
CBS News (Online)