Tag: Department of Health and Human Services

Lack of transparency among GOP gripes over Medicare drug price negotiation rules

Gabrielle M. Etzel · September 15, 2023 9:10 am

House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) speaks during a House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing.

Fairness and Justice

House GOP threatens HHS secretary with subpoena over COVID-19 origins investigation

Gabrielle M. Etzel · September 14, 2023 8:33 pm

Bottles of medications ride on a belt.

Biden drug price negotiations risk shortages of key class of drugs, industry warns

Gabrielle M. Etzel · September 9, 2023 8:00 am

Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) speaks during a House Energy and Commerce Innovation, Data, and Commerce Subcommittee hearing on data privacy, Thursday, April 27, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

House to tackle drug shortages as top priority this term

Gabrielle M. Etzel · September 8, 2023 9:00 pm

Three-quarters of nursing homes will have to hire more employees, per new CMS rule

Gabrielle M. Etzel · September 1, 2023 4:42 pm

In this Sept. 18, 2012 file photo, a caregiver picks out a marijuana bud for a patient at a marijuana dispensary in Denver.

Biden’s bad gift to Big Pot

Washington Examiner · September 1, 2023 11:00 am

Biden HHS calls for reclassifying marijuana as a lower-risk drug

Gabrielle M. Etzel · August 30, 2023 4:54 pm

Senior man with an unhappy, depressed expression and his hands framing his face looking through an opening in rows of prescription medication. Health care and medication cost can overwhelm many senior citizens.

CMS names 10 drugs under new price controls, but advocates warn of ‘cruel’ side effects

Gabrielle M. Etzel · August 29, 2023 12:12 pm

Immigrant children are shown outside a former Job Corps site that now houses them, Monday, June 18, 2018, in Homestead, Fla.

Biden transition official caught on camera saying border crisis is ‘boom for business’

Anna Giaritelli · August 9, 2023 10:27 pm

Sunrise is viewed between power lines in Sacramento, California, on Sept. 8. The record-breaking heat that has pushed the state's electrical grid to the brink of power outages for more than a week.

White House launches national system to track heat-related illness

David Zimmermann · August 9, 2023 8:58 pm

Rep. Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, then-chairman of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, joined at left by Rep. Raul Ruiz, D-Calif., the ranking member, makes closing remarks following testimony by Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, at the Capitol in Washington, June 3, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House COVID-19 subcommittee investigating vaccine mandates

Gabrielle M. Etzel · August 1, 2023 8:06 pm

The State Department is launching the Bureau of Global Health Security and Diplomacy to elevate the issue of global health in U.S. international policy in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. "Health transcends borders, economies, security. Ways of life rise and fall based on health," Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said at a joint press conference on August 1, 2023, with Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Ambassador-at-Large John Nkengasong, new head of the Bureau of Global Health Security and Diplomacy at the State Department.

State Department creates new bureau focused on global health security in wake of pandemic

Gabrielle M. Etzel · August 1, 2023 4:06 pm