Health Care
Nadler Pushes Bill to Overturn Bush’s ‘Midnight Regulations’
That didn’t take long.
On the first day of the 111th Congress, House Democrats are already targeting the last-minute regulations passed down by the Bush administration in recent weeks. Among the most controversial of those efforts have been rules to ease environmental restrictions on various industries and expand the rights of healthcare workers to refuse any [...]
Report: Obama to Tap CNN Doc Gupta for Surgeon General
President-elect Barack Obama has offered the post of surgeon general to neurosurgeon Sanjay Gupta, who is better known for his work as a CNN correspondent, The Washington Post reports.
Study: Virginity Pledges Don’t Work
Confirming what many have been saying for years, a new survey finds that teenagers who pledge to forgo sexual activity until marriage were just as likely to engage in premarital sex as those who do not. Adolescents who take the pledge are also less likely than their peers to use birth control or condoms when [...]
Recession Stirs Advocates for a Fully-Nationalized Medicaid
Last week, we wrote about the budget troubles facing states in this sputtering economy, with nearly half of them already proposing or enacting cuts to Medicaid. The reason is clear: 49 states have some form of legal balanced-budget requirement, and Medicaid, which is paid with a combination of state and federal funds, eats an enormous [...]
Outlook Bleak for Health Programs in 2009
Rising unemployment is creating greater demand for Medicaid, while home values and consumer spending are down, leaving less revenue for states to fund such safety-net programs. Many expect the situation to grow worse.
No Major Health Reform in 2009?
That’s what Rep. Pete Stark, chairman of the Ways and Means Health Subcommittee, implied today, according to The Hill. The California Democrat said that the economic troubles facing the country — as well as “deferred maintenance” health care issues like the renewal of SCHIP — would push the larger reform debate to late 2009 or [...]
Obama: Health Care Reform a Top Priority
Also addressed during President-elect Barack Obama’s juicy press conference about the Blagojevich scandal was the presser’s stated subject, health care.
Obama officially named former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) as his choice for secretary of health and human services and director of the new White House Office of Health Reform. Obama also announced that Jeanne [...]
Obama Pledges Details on Staff Meetings with Governor’s Office
During a press conference this morning in Chicago, ostensibly to officially name former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) as President-elect Barack Obama’s pick for secretary of health and human services and director of the White House office of health reform, Obama found himself talking mostly about the scandal surrounding Democratic Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
When [...]
Progressives Could Lose a Small Battle to Win the Big War
Atrios, utilizing his trademark, uh, panache, offers a very well-reasoned response to the small but vocal segment of “the Left” who are angry about President-elect Barack Obama’s cabinet choices so far:
Kennedy Stepping Down From Judiciary
Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), suffering from brain cancer, will step down from the powerful Judiciary Committee when Congress returns to Washington in January, the Boston Globe is reporting, citing an unnamed Democratic source:
The decision had nothing to do with the health of the legendary Democratic lawmaker, who is battling an aggressive brain tumor, the source [...]
