Word: sebelius
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...model from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) predicts that 40% of the nation could be struck - roughly 140 million people - with perhaps a six-figure death toll if a vaccination campaign is not successfully implemented. "To a lot of people, the flu went away," worries Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services, who received her first Situation Room flu briefing minutes after taking her oath in April. "Nothing could be further from the truth...
...keen understanding of Moore's political situation. Republicans outnumber Democrats in Kansas, but in recent years they have been more interested in internecine combat than in fighting the opposition. Splits over issues like abortion and creationism opened the door for Democrats like Moore and former Kansas governor Kathleen Sebelius to win moderate GOP votes by focusing on education, the environment and economic development...
...issue came to a boil as the National Governors Association (NGA) met in Biloxi, Miss. At a luncheon with Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius - who until April had been governor of Kansas - her former colleagues vented their anger at the idea of being handed the bill for yet another Washington initiative. Tennessee's Democratic governor, Phil Bredesen, told the New York Times that he regarded the proposed expansion of Medicaid as "the mother of all unfunded mandates" and warned, "Medicaid is a poor vehicle for expanding coverage." (See the top 10 health-care-reform players...
Products with phony H1N1 claims began popping up on the Internet less than 48 hours after Kathleen Sebelius, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, declared H1N1 a public-health emergency on April 26. That's not unusual. The FDA says every time a new health threat pops up, fly-by-night companies take advantage of public fears by offering products that are too good to be true. "We've had similar situations with SARS and with avian flu," says Gary Coody, the national health-fraud coordinator...
...money. Conrad has compared the model to an HMO-like health cooperative operating in Washington State, but also, oddly enough, to agricultural cooperatives like Ocean Spray and Land O'Lakes. Republicans have not outright rejected the co-op idea. And over the weekend, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said of the co-op plan, "Having these ideas on the table is exactly where we need to be right now." The question is, Will any one of them be enough to get health-care reform to the President's desk by the end of the year...