OVERNIGHT HEALTH: Agitated Dems vent on ObamaCare
Senate Democrats vented their frustrations over the faulty rollout of the Affordable Care Act in a meeting Thursday with White House chief of staff Denis McDonough and other senior officials....
View ArticleSebelius: O-Care enrollment ‘quite low’
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius acknowledged on Wednesday that the initial enrollment numbers through the new healthcare exchanges will be “quite low.” [WATCH VIDEO]In testimony...
View ArticleGOP senators to Obama: Fire Sebelius now
Ten Republican senators sent a letter to President Obama on Thursday urging him to fire Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius "immediately."“When you have good management and you have...
View ArticleNews bites: Equal coverage for the mentally ill
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius will join a host of top administration officials in announcing sweeping new regulations requiring insurers to treat mental illness and addiction...
View ArticleInsurers told to treat mental illness equally
Tens of millions of mentally ill and drug-addicted Americans will get expanded access to treatment under regulations unveiled Friday that require insurers to provide equal coverage for behavioral and...
View ArticleRubio: Public is forced to ‘blindly trust’ navigators
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) criticized President Obama Tuesday, saying he is forcing the public to “blindly trust” healthcare navigators despite security risks.“It is unacceptable that President Obama is...
View ArticleOVERNIGHT HEALTH: Low numbers for ObamaCare
The Obama administration on Wednesday said 106,185 people selected private health plans under ObamaCare in its first month, only about one-fifth of the administration's stated goal.Only 26,794 people...
View ArticleGibbs: WH must fire someone over O-Care
Former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Monday that the White House must fire someone — or possibly even a group of people — over the “botched” ObamaCare rollout.“I think longer term, in...
View ArticleWhite House: We get why Dems are angry
The White House says it gets the frustration felt by congressional Democrats over the disastrous first six weeks of ObamaCare, but is convinced once the healthcare law’s website is fixed, all will be...
View ArticleCruz: Democrats want to pack court with judges to protect ObamaCare
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), the Senate’s leading critic of the Affordable Care Act, denounced a vote Thursday to prohibit filibusters against appellate court nominees as a scheme to save the healthcare...
View ArticleFilibuster's end imperils Sebelius
Kathleen Sebelius may become the biggest loser in the Senate's approval of filibuster reform.The Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary has kept her job despite the botched rollout of ObamaCare's...
View ArticleSebelius: HHS ‘on track’ for website fix
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Tuesday the Obama administration would meet its self-imposed Nov. 30 deadline to have HealthCare.gov running better.“We are definitely...
View ArticleD-Day for HealthCare.gov fixes
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View ArticleSebelius touts Healthcare.gov’s ‘dramatic’ improvements
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View ArticleObama to sign up on health exchange
White House press secretary Jay Carney sidestepped questions Monday about whether the president has signed up for health insurance under ObamaCare.“I know that he will and has said that he will, the...
View ArticleSebelius headed back to Capitol Hill
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius will testify again before lawmakers now that the deadline for fixing HealthCare.gov has passed.She will appear before the House Energy and Commerce...
View ArticleTennessee governor working with HHS on Medicaid expansion
The Republican governor of Tennessee on Monday said he’d be open to expanding Medicaid under ObamaCare if a system is found that the state's GOP-led legislature approves of.Gov. Bill Haslam, in a...
View ArticleOVERNIGHT HEALTH: Obama hits new low on healthcare
A strong majority disapprove of President Obama’s handling of healthcare, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released on Tuesday. According to the survey, 60 percent disapprove of how the...
View ArticleHHS ‘hand-matching' applications: Sebelius
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is manually fixing thousands of flawed enrollment transmissions sent from HealthCare.gov to insurance companies in October and November, Congress was...
View ArticleGOP Rep lashes out at Sebelius
Rep. John Shimkus (R-Ill.) lashed out at Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius at a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on Wednesday.Shimkus became heated during a disagreement...
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