Finance Panel Quietly Postpones Hearing on HHS Nominees

With all the focus on (and delays surrounding) the Senate Finance Committee’s health reform bill, the outcome of another Senate health care controversy has been put on hold.  In the past week, the finance panel has twice postponed hearings to examine two White House nominees for positions in More…

Obama Proposes Overturning Bush’s ‘Right to Conscience’ Rule

The White House has proposed a regulation to overturn a controversial Bush administration rule that expanded the rights of health care workers to deny services they deem morally objectionable.

Taking effect in the final days of the George W. Bush’s presidency, the so-called “right of conscience” rule angered many More…