Attorney General Eric Holder and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced Medicare Fraud Strike Force law enforcement actions. This was one of many…
496 viewsPanelists talked about suicide prevention efforts. They focused on a Department of Health and Human Services initiative that would provide nearly $56 million in new grants and set new standa…
9,214 viewsA book launch party was held at the Jefferson Hotel for Mark Shriver’s book, A Good Man: Rediscovering My Father, Sargent Shriver, in which he recounts the personal life and political career…
294 viewsThe opening session of the International AIDS Conference included Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim and Washington, D.C. Mayor Vincent …
214 viewsSecretary Sebelius spoke to the Education Department Bullying Prevention Summit. She said that more studies needed to be done to understand bullying and talked about anti-bullying initiative…
494 viewsSenator Barb Mikulski (D-MD), Secretary Sebelius, and other members of Congress spoke to reporters about new health care coverage that guarantees women will receive, at no cost, an annual wo…
293 viewsSecretary Sebelius, Attorney General Holder, and Karen Ignagni outlined details of the government’s new partnership with private insurers and state investigators to stop Medicare fraud, whic…
400 viewsKathleen Sebelius outlined the next steps for implementing the health care law, the Affordable Care Act. In reference to the House Republican efforts to repeal the health care law, she said …
1,029 viewsHealth and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius and Pamela Hyde spoke at a conference on suicide prevention.
327 viewsHealth and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius spoke at an awards ceremony for Georgetown graduate students in the university’s public policy school, despite her invitation meeting wi…
1,081 viewsAdministration officials spoke to government employees at a town hall meeting held to mark Public Service Recognition Week. They focused on the government workforce and its services to the p…
255 viewsAttorney General Eric Holder and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced that 107 doctors, nurses and other health care providers from seven different states had been…
549 viewsThe Social Security and Medicare fund trustees released their annual report on the fiscal condition of both federal programs. Trustees included Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, Health and Hu…
315 viewsSecretary Sebelius spoke about health care, the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, and how the programs enacted would reduce disparities in health care provision.
119 viewsSecretary Sebelius and Surgeon General Regina Benjamin talked about the new Surgeon General report on tobacco use among youth. The report showed that youth smoking was down since the 1994 re…
2,849 viewsPublic health officials talked about a new federal government ad campaign against tobacco usage. Former smokers told stories in graphic detail about lost limbs and lungs and multiple heart a…
753 viewsSecretary Sebelius testified on the Health and Human Services Department fiscal year 2013 budget request. The budget called for $76.4 billion, which included a 26% increase for Centers for M…
525 viewsSecretary Sebelius testified about the fiscal year 2013 Health and Human Services budget.
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