Kathleen Sebelius


Kathleen Sebelius News

  • Day-Care Centers Pushed to Meet Federal Safety Standards

    Child-care centers that get U.S. government subsidies will for the first time have to meet a uniform set of federal standards for employee background checks, first-aid training and other protective measures.

  • Sebelius Limited Fundraising For Health Law to Two Calls

    The U.S. health secretary’s solicitation of money from companies to promote the Affordable Care Act ended after two phone calls, to H&R Block Inc. and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, according to her spokesman.

  • Sebelius Asks for Trouble in Seeking Donations

    This week’s furor over the Internal Revenue Service’s selective scrutiny of Tea Party groups and the Justice Department’s secret collection of phone records from the Associated Press has obscured what may prove in the long run to be a more troubling ethical breach. Unable to secure funding from Congress to carry out the Affordable Care Act, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has responded with a bizarre error in judgment.

  • Sebelius Health Law Fundraising Probed by Republicans

    The U.S. health secretary’s effort to raise money to promote the Affordable Care Act is drawing the attention of Republican lawmakers who want to know whether she solicited companies regulated by her agency.

  • Morning After Pill Order Should Be Delayed, U.S. Tells Court

    The U.S. government asked a federal appeals court to delay a trial judge’s ruling that would grant women of all ages over-the-counter access to the so-called morning after birth-control pill.

  • Sebelius Solicits Companies for Health Law Publicity Fund

    President Barack Obama’s health secretary has called companies and other organizations, seeking financial contributions to help promote the 2010 health-care law that takes full effect next year.

  • ‘Morning-After’ Pill Judge Won’t Delay Ruling for Appeal

    A federal judge rejected as “frivolous” a government request to delay the effect of his order giving girls including those 16 and younger access to the so-called morning after-pill without a prescription.

  • No Lobby for Grandma Means a Budget Throwing Grandkids Off Train

    Margaret George, a retired widow raising her three young grandchildren in a trailer in Whispering Ranch, Arizona, says her family wouldn’t survive without federal help to pay for electricity.

  • Obama Sees Health Care as Legacy Too Worthy to Resist

    Just weeks after his re-election, President Barack Obama summoned about 20 senior administration officials to the White House’s Roosevelt Room for an hour-long meeting on the implementation of his health-care law.

  • Obama Earmarks $150 Million for Clinics to Publicize Law

    The Obama administration is enlisting the help of community health clinics to promote the 2010 health- care law in a $150 million effort to make sure uninsured people are aware of new medical coverage options available Oct. 1.

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