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Obama seeks divine intervention on health care
The call included the administration’s highest-ranking Health Reform officials: Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, White House Office of Health Reform director Nancy Ann-DeParle, and Assistant to the President for Special Products Stephanie Cutter. Joshua DuBois, director of the White House Office of Faith-based and Community Partnerships, gave Activists a rallying cry: “Get the word out there, get information out there. Make use of the resources we’ve described...

U.S. Apologizes for Guatemala Syphilis Experiment
Washington - The United States apologized on Friday for an experiment conducted in the 1940s in which U.S. government medical researchers deliberately infected Guatemalan Prison inmates with syphilis. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and other Top Officials issued a statement about the experiment, which echoed the infamous 1960s Tuskegee study in which black American men were deliberately left untreated for syphilis. "The Sexually...

U.S. apologizes for STD experiments in Guatemala
About one third of those who were infected never got adequate treatment. On Friday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius offered extensive apologies for actions taken by the U.S. Public Health Service. "The Sexually transmitted Disease inoculation study conducted from 1946-1948 in Guatemala was clearly unethical," according to the joint statement from Clinton and Sebelius. "Although these events occurred more than 64 years ago, we are...

U.S. apologizes for Guatemala STD experiments
About one third of those who were infected never got adequate treatment. On Friday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius offered extensive apologies for actions taken by the U.S. Public Health Service. "The Sexually transmitted Disease inoculation study conducted from 1946-1948 in Guatemala was clearly unethical," according to the joint statement from Clinton and Sebelius. "Although these events occurred more than 64 years ago, we are...

U.S. Government Scientist Gave Syphilis to Guatemalans on Purpose
In today's Totally Fucked-Up Shit Your Country Did news, the U.S. government says it is sowwies for giving syphilis to nearly 700 Guatemalan women, Prison inmates and mentally ill patients in the 1940s… On Friday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius offered extensive apologies for actions taken by the U.S. Public Health Service. "The Sexually transmitted Disease inoculation study conducted from 1946-1948 in Guatemala...

US Issues Apology to Guatemala for STD Experiments
US government scientists knowingly infected hundreds of people in Guatemala with STDs, specifically gonorrhea and syphilis, without their knowledge. This happened more than 60 years ago, and the effects on the people went almost entirely undocumented. Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Secretary of State Hilary Clinton issued a statement apologizing for their actions Friday. This experiment was used as a study to learn more about the ways these STDs worked, and many who took part...

McDonald's Denies It's Dropping Health Care Benefits
Anti-Obamaites love to talk about how companies are dropping Health Care coverage for its employees in advance of parts of the new heath Care plan kicking in. McDonald’s is denying a Wall Street Journal report that it is dropping Health Care benefits for 30,000 employees. “Media reports stating that we plan to drop Health Care coverage for our employees are completely false,” said Steve Russell, a senior Vice President and head of human resources for McDonald’s,...

U.S. to apologize for STD experiments in Guatemala
About one third of those who were infected never got adequate treatment. On Friday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius offered extensive apologies for actions taken by the U.S. Public Health Service. "The Sexually transmitted Disease inoculation study conducted from 1946-1948 in Guatemala was clearly unethical," according to the joint statement from Clinton and Sebelius. "Although these events occurred more than 64 years ago, we are...

The Heavy Hand of Kathleen Sebelius
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is upset that critics are accusing her of thuggery (the Wall Street Journal) and soviet tyranny (Newt Gingrich). My favorite came from the well-respected political analyst Michael Barone: gangster government. The reason they are criticizing Sebelius was the secretarys recent Cease and Desist order sent to Health Insurers. Some Insurers have been notifying their policyholders of future premium increases. In addition...

Re: Sibelius defends the indefensible
Over at American Thinker, Aaron Gee deconstructs Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius' utterly unconvincing retort to charges of thuggery in her threats to Health Insurance Companies and exposes her faulty logic and amazing amount of ignorance of highly pertinent and inconvenient facts about a system that she is supposed to understand. His must-read piece is a lesson in the the economics of the Insurance Industry and the drivers behind the cost - all of which Sebelius (and...

Kathleen Sebelius sees 'dangerous' flow of anonymous campaign cash
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said she has seen dozens of political ads paid for by generic-sounding organizations with anonymous money.

Rahm Emanuel didn't kill 'public option,' says Kathleen Sebelius
Rahm Emanuel's White House Chief of Staff role wasn't in crafting policy, but in managing strategy, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told reporters Thursday.

U.S. apologizes for infecting Guatemalans with STDs in 1940s
The United States apologized Friday for a 1946-1948 research study that purposely infected people in Guatemala with sexually transmitted diseases. A statement by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Secretary of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius called the action "reprehensible." "We deeply regret that it happened, and we apologize to all the individuals who were affected by such abhorrent research practices," the joint statement said. "The conduct...

McDonald's May End Health Care Benefits For 30,000 Workers
UPDATE: Sept. 30, 11:57 a.m. EST -- McDonald's denies it McDonald's Senior VP Steve Russell, who is the head of human resources, calls reports that the company will drop its coverage "completely false." Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has also denied The Wall Street Journal 's report, calling it " flat out wrong ." "I am sorry that they were not more accurate in their reporting," Sebelius said . -- McDonald's has threatened to terminate Health benefits for almost...

Obama Pregnancy Assistance Fund Awards $27 Million to Teens, Young Parents
In a bid to find common ground in the contentious Abortion debate, the Federal Government on Wednesday awarded $27 million to a host of state programs aimed at assisting pregnant teenagers and young parents. These grants will offer states and Indian Tribes "much needed assistance to support vulnerable teens and women who are pregnant and parenting," said Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. "With this funding, states will link these families to health education, child care,...

Briefing on State Medicaid Programs, the Recession and Health Reform
Twitter Briefing on State Medicaid Programs, the Recession and Health Reform The Kaiser Family Foundation's Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured (KCMU) held a 9:30 a.m. ET briefing on Thursday, September 30 to examine the challenges facing states as they continue to struggle with the lingering impacts of the Recession and begin preparing to implement Health Reform. Three

A Case Study Of Right-Wing Distortions Of Health Care Reform
by Sandi Behrns The Association of American Medical Colleges released a report Thursday detailing an expected shortage of physicians in the US. In actuality, we are already struggling with a critical shortage of doctors, but as the study notes, the shortage will grow during the years thatthe Affordable Care Act is implemented. Between now and 2015, the year after Health Care Reforms are scheduled to take effect, the shortage of doctors across all specialties will quadruple. While...

Reuters: Health reform to worsen doctor shortage
The U.S. Healthcare Reform law will worsen a shortage of physicians as millions of newly insured patients seek Care, the Association of American Medical Colleges said on Thursday. The group's Center for Workforce Studies released new estimates that showed shortages would be 50 percent worse in 2015 than forecast. "While previous projections showed a baseline shortage of 39,600 doctors in 2015, current estimates bring that number closer to 63,000, with a worsening of shortages...

U.S. apologizes for 'abhorrent' syphilis study in Guatemala
Mexico City — Exposing a dark page in its history, the U.S. government acknowledged Friday that government scientists had infected some 1,500 Guatemalans with syphilis and gonorrhea in experiments from 1946 to 1948 in "appalling violations" of Medical ethics. U.S. scientists infected Prostitutes with syphilis or gonorrhea and sent them to have unprotected sex with Soldiers or Prison inmates, later testing them for possible cures, U.S. officials said. When few became infected, scientists...

San Fran Nan: Dems Will Hit Campaign Trail With Spirit of Optimism
Pelosi told reporters yesterday that her radical party members left the halls of Congress this year with a spirit of optimism. Maybe she missed this ad … Democrat Rep. Earl Pomeroy, who voted with Pelosi 97% of the time, is now running a pro-Bush ad in North Dakota. He doesn’t sound very optimistic. The Hill reported: House Democratic leaders on Thursday defended their move to cut the legislative session short so lawmakers could return to the Campaign Trail. In the wake of...

Health Reform to Worsen Doctor Shortage
The U.S. Healthcare Reform law will worsen a shortage of physicians as millions of newly insured patients seek Care, the Association of American Medical Colleges said on Thursday. The group's Center for Workforce Studies released new estimates that showed shortages would be 50 percent worse in 2015 than forecast. "While previous projections showed a baseline shortage of 39,600 doctors in 2015, current estimates bring that number closer to 63,000, with a worsening of shortages through 2025,"...

21 Of 22 States Suing Over Health Reform Begin Planning For Exchanges With Federal Funds
21 Of 22 States Suing Over Health Reform Begin Planning For Exchanges With Federal Funds The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced today that it would distribute $49 million in planning grants to help 48 states — 21 of which are suing the federal government over the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act — “to invest in research and planning to get the Exchanges up and running” by 2014. “In my month on the job, I’ve been out meeting...

I Remember When Dissent Used to Be the Highest Form of Patriotism
But that was before the Obama Administration came to office, and Kathleen Sebelius decided to make a career out of threatening the livelihoods of anyone opposed to Obama Administration Health Care policies. It goes without saying, of course, that if a Bush Administration official engaged in the kind of squashing of dissent Sebelius makes a regular part of her day, the media and the port-side of the Blogosphere would be on the attack ceaselessly. Yet now, those sectors of the information...

Seniors On Medicare Lose Their Insurance " Thanks To Obamacare
Update: National Review has a good recap of “ObamaCare @ 6 Months” and how all signs indicate those who opposed ObamaCare were right and the supporters of ObamaCare were - at best - misleading: Two weeks ago, HHS secretary Kathleen Sebelius sent a letter to the nations insurers with a plainly stated threat: Either the insurers conform to the political agenda of the administration and describe the reasons for premium increases in terms acceptable to the Democratic...