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Fundraising Frenzy: It's Now or Never to Raise Campaign Cash
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyIt's fundraising frenzy time in the nation's capital. With the midterm elections less than six weeks away, candidates, special interest groups and Democratic and Republican allies and campaign committees are busy raising money through events with high-profile political figures, direct-mail appeals and e-mails. For candidates to make use of the cash -- from reserving television time to funding get-out-the vote drives -- donors are being pressured now to write the checks or make online donations. Tea Party-backed Christine O'Donnell, the surprise GOP nominee for Senate in the Delaware ...
Sebelius to Insurer WellPoint: Stop Dropping Breast Cancer Patients
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyDepartment of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has asked insurance giant WellPoint to stop its reported practice of canceling coverage for patients recently diagnosed with breast cancer. In a letter to WellPoint's CEO, Sebelius wrote she was "surprised and disappointed" to learn from a Reuters investigation that the Indiana-based company has "specifically targeted women with breast cancer for aggressive investigation with intent to cancel their policies." "As you know, the practice described in this article will soon be illegal," Sebelius wrote to CEO Angela Braly. "The ...
President Obama's Remarks After House Passage of Health Reform
By not in system - AOL News(March 21) Following is the White House transcript of President Obama's remarks made after the House passed health care reform. THE PRESIDENT: Good evening, everybody. Tonight, after nearly 100 years of talk and frustration, after decades of trying, and a year of sustained effort and debate, the United States Congress finally declared that America's workers and America's families and America's small businesses deserve the security of knowing that here, in this country, neither illness nor accident should endanger the dreams they've worked a lifetime to achieve. Tonight, at a time when the ...
Kathleen Sebelius and Mitch McConnell on ABC's'This Week'
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyABC'S "THIS WEEK" MARCH 7, 2010 SPEAKERS: MATTHEW DOWD, HOST KATHLEEN SEBELIUS, SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES SEN. MITCH MCCONNELL, R-KY., SENATE MINORITY LEADER ...
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on NBC's 'Meet the Press'
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyNBC'S "MEET THE PRESS" MARCH 7, 2010 SPEAKERS: DAVID GREGORY, HOST KATHLEEN SEBELIUS, SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES ...
Sebelius Predicts Health Bill Passage, But Dodges the Question of 'When?'
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyHealth and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius predicted Sunday that Democratic congressional leaders will find enough support to pass a comprehensive health care reform bill but she ducked the question of when backers of the legislation will be ready to put it to a vote. At meetings with groups of House Democrats on Thursday, President Obama underlined the need to get the a health care reform package passed soon. His spokesman, Robert Gibbs, said Obama expected the House to do so by March 18 before he leaves on a trip to Australia and Indonesia. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said ...
The Public Option: It's Baaack?!?
By Russell Berman - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Feb. 19) -- The public option is back. Again. Or is it? That's the question buzzing through the political blogosphere after Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Thursday night that the White House would support a renewed push for a government-run insurance option. No policy proposal has had a wilder roller-coaster ride in the Obama administration than the public option. It emerged as a central tenet of the comprehensive health care reform plan early on; Republicans then attacked it as a slippery first step to a single-payer nationalized health care system, ...
You're Watching: Barack Obama. Up Next: Barack Obama
By Willy Hameline - Politics DailyIt's no secret that many of those displeased with the direction our country has taken since Barack Obama's swearing in eight months ago feel the federal government has gotten too big. As if the series of bailouts to banks and automakers weren't enough, the health care overhaul was yet another unacceptable encroachment of the government's long fingers into the pies many would rather keep private.It's also no secret, but apparently hard to swallow, that America is not the privatized bastion of small government that tea party protesters say they are trying to defend. The government is widely ...
Free H1N1 Flu Vaccines for Everyone in the Country
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyThe U.S. government is a ramping up a drive to make sure that everyone in the U.S. who wants the H1N1 influenza virus vaccine can get either a shot or nasal spray for free or for a small charge. At least 6 million vaccine doses will be distributed during the first week of October, with tens of millions to follow each week. In all, 250 million doses have been purchased by the federal government. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Dr. Anne Schuchat, the director of the Center for Disease Control's Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, met with reporters in the ...
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is Taking Your Questions
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyIs there one question you've been wanting to ask the Obama administration about health care reform? One thing about co-ops or the public option you still haven't heard them say, even after six months of debate and deliberation? Tomorrow is your lucky day, Politics Daily readers, because Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius will be taking your questions directly from the White House. How can you get in the queue? Just submit the single question you'd like to ask the secretary before midnight tonight to me with the "e-mail Patricia Murphy" button below, or click here to send ...
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