Tag: Department of Health and Human Services

Senate hopes to end years of spending gridlock

Susan Ferrechio · August 18, 2018 4:00 am

Federal Health Coordinating Official for the 2018 UAC Reunification Effort Cmdr. Jonathan White testifies as the Senate Judiciary Committee holds a hearing on the Trump administration's policies on immigration enforcement and family reunification efforts, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 31, 2018.

Senators press HHS official on agency’s failure to track unaccompanied immigrant children after release

Diana Stancy Correll · August 16, 2018 5:00 pm

Drug middlemen push back that rebates are to blame for high drug prices

Robert King · August 15, 2018 5:26 pm

Insurer sues Trump administration over Obamacare funds

Kimberly Leonard · August 13, 2018 11:01 pm

FILE - This June 18, 2014, file photo shows young detainees being escorted to an area to make phone calls as hundreds of mostly Central American immigrant children are being processed and held at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Nogales Placement Center in Nogales, Ariz. Thousands of immigrant children crossing alone into the U.S. can live in American cities, attend public schools and possibly work here for years without consequences. The chief reasons are an overburdened, deeply flawed system of immigration courts and a 2002 law intended to protect children's welfare, an Associated Press investigation finds. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, Pool)

Texas ‘tent city’ housing migrant boys to remain open until September: Report

Diana Stancy Correll · August 11, 2018 4:27 pm

Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar speaks in Washington.

Trump administration ends Medicaid loophole in drug rebates

Kimberly Leonard · August 9, 2018 7:43 pm

Family Nurse Practitioner Ruth Wiley examines Elizabeth Knowles (left) at a clinic.

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Trump’s new short-term health insurance rule is a major victory for young people and working families

Justin Haskins · August 8, 2018 4:00 am

President Donald Trump speaks during an event about healthcare in the Blue Room of the White House, Monday, July 24, 2017, in Washington.

Trump teases announcement that will lower prescription drug prices

Allison Elyse Gualtieri · August 8, 2018 2:50 am

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, announced on Tuesday that Alex Azar (pictured above), President Trump's nominee to become Secretary of Health and Human Services, will be part of a hearing next week.

HHS to expand negotiating power for Medicare

Robert King · August 7, 2018 8:59 pm

House Oversight and Reform Committee Chair Elijah Cummings, D-Md., speaks to reporters about issuing subpoenas as part of his investigation of people in President Donald Trump's administration who were granted security clearances despite "disqualifying issues" in their backgrounds, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 2, 2019.

Top oversight Democrat presses Trump administration on Obamacare online content deletions

Robert King · August 7, 2018 3:10 pm

Correcting an injustice: HHS moves to stop unions from skimming from Medicaid

Chantal Lovell, Vincent Vernuccio · August 7, 2018 12:00 am

Trump administration created 410 ‘permanently orphaned’ children through family separations, says federal judge

Anna Giaritelli · August 3, 2018 11:49 pm