Lawsuit: Trump Family-Planning Rule ‘Politicizes’ Medicine

DAVID CRARY / The Associated Press Mar 5, 2019 The AMA and Planned Parenthood oppose a rule barring family planning clinics funded by Title X from making abortion referrals. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Detaining Immigrant Kids Is Now a Billion-Dollar Industry

MARTHA MENDOZA AND LARRY FENN / The Associated Press Jul 12, 2018 Health and Human Services grants for shelters, foster care and other child welfare services for detained unaccompanied and separated children soared from $74.5 million in 2007 to $958 million in 2017. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

New Rule Makes Mental Health Care Available to Millions of Americans

Peter Z. Scheer / Truthdig Nov 9, 2013 Acting on a law passed way back in 2008, the Departments of Health and Human Services, Treasury and Labor made a final ruling that forces many health insurers to treat mental illnesses like physical ones. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

‘Daily Show’: Kathleen Sebelius on Obamacare and Single-Payer

Peter Z. Scheer / Truthdig Oct 9, 2013 As the secretary of health and human services, Kathleen Sebelius finds herself a mild-mannered Kansan in the center of one of the most vitriolic political battles in modern American history. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Kids Just Want to Get High

Staff / Truthdig Mar 12, 2010 File this under scary stories about drugs that lead to bad policy, but U.S. health officials just announced that about 7 percent of 12-year-olds have tried to get loaded by inhaling household chemicals. The little huffers far outnumbered junior pot smokers (1.4 percent), but, even at this age, alcohol is America's drug of choice. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Sebelius at Last

Staff / Truthdig Apr 29, 2009 Just in time for swine flu, the Senate has confirmed Barack Obama's pick to head the massive Health and Human Services Department, Kathleen Sebelius. Democrats were able to use the health scare to shake the upper chamber out of abortion-obsessed confirmation gridlock. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Committee OKs Sebelius Over Republican Objections

Staff / Truthdig Apr 22, 2009 President Obama presided over his first formal Cabinet meeting Monday with a rather important chair left empty. Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, Obama's pick to head the $750 billion Health and Human Services Department and spearhead his ambitious health care reform initiatives, has finally made it out of hearings and should be approved by the end of the week. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Another Nominee in Tax Trouble

Staff / Truthdig Apr 1, 2009 This has gone from coincidence to self-parody to alarming. Another of Barack Obama's nominees has had to apologize for not paying her full taxes. Kathleen Sebelius, the president's pick to lead the Health and Human Services Department, has now paid off $7,918, a paltry debt compared with Tom Daschle's $140,000. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Howard Dean Should Have Been Obama’s Pick All Along

Chip Fleischer / Truthdig Feb 6, 2009 Now that Tom Daschle has withdrawn his name from the running to be health and human services secretary, President Obama should revisit the idea of nominating former Democratic National Chairman Howard Dean for the position, an idea he abandoned last November for all the wrong reasons. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Obama: ‘I Screwed Up’

Staff / Truthdig Feb 4, 2009 "I'm frustrated with myself, with our team," the president said Tuesday as he worked the cameras to try to limit the fallout from his appointee implosion. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )