The Senate Finance Committee held a confirmation hearing for President Trump’s Health and Human Services secretary nominee, Alex Azar. The hearing focused on prescription drug prices, Medica…
2,552 viewsThe American Enterprise Institute hosted a series of panel discussions on the impact of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA), also sometimes r…
524 viewsGovernment officials and seniors health care representatives talked about the need for a bipartisan solution to improve the financing and delivery of long-term health care. Long-term care ge…
516 viewsFormer congressional leaders and cabinet officials talked about problems with and ways to reform the budget process. David Obey said that members of Congress should spend more time in Washin…
151 viewsWalter Isaacson moderated a discussion on educational performance. Participants spoke about educational testing standards, performance by minority and disadvantaged students, the economic im…
170 viewsFormer Governor Tommy Thompson (R-WI) talked about the National Governors Association’s Centennial meeting being held over the weekend in Philadelphia. Topics included his time as a member o…
73 viewsFormer Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson, a four-term governor of Wisconsin, talked about health care from the constitutional perspective of choice or mandates. Former Senat…
246 viewsPanelists talked about the qualities to be looked for in the next vice president and the political factors that might influence the selection of a running mate in 2008. Vice presidential sel…
232 viewsRepublican presidential candidates and others reacted after the candidates held their first debate for the 2008 Republican nomination at the Ronald Reagan Library.
146 viewsPresident Bush signed the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 into law at a ceremony in Constitution Hall. Following brief remarks by Secretary Thompson, P…
507 viewsCabinet officials spoke to reporters about federal responses to attacks on the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon. Among the issues they addressed were law enforcements underway to f…
508 viewsThe 98th annual meeting of the National Governors Association focused on the state of health care and education in the United States. In the opening plenary session, former Secretary Thompso…
153 viewsFormer Senator Breaux moderated a discussion on health care reform with former HHS Secretaries Donna Shalala and Tommy Thompson. Secretaries Shalala and Thompson talked about pressing health…
101 viewsHealth & Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson and Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman spoke about new dietary guidelines to improve the nation’s public health. Among the topics they address…
79 viewsHealth and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson and other Health officials spoke to reporters about the status of programs to improve the quality of health care in facilities for the aged…
90 viewsFollowing meetings of eight separate panels at an economic forum sponsored by the White House, participants talked about their panel discussions on various aspects of the state of the econom…
133 viewsModerated by Secretary Thompson, the panelists discussed how health care costs affect our economic growth and how to move toward a more consumer-centered, technology-driven health care syste…
95 viewsHealth and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson talked to reporters about recently available doses of influenza vaccine and distribution of the new doses. Following his remarks, he and Fo…
27 viewsHealth and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson announced his resignation from the Department of Health and Human Services. He talked about his political career, including being governor …
100 viewsSecretary of Health of Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson and other officials spoke to reporters about U.S. efforts to stem the global AIDS pandemic, monetary commitments to …
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