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Health Care Overhaul

2010-03-10T12:33:06Z

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius speaks at the American Health Insurance Plans 2010 National Policy Forum in Washington, Wednesday, March 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

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Sebelius piles pressure on insurers

2010-03-10T08:45:13Z

<div><p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius ratcheted up the pressure on health insurance companies on Wednesday, urging them to forgo short-term profits and stop fighting President Barack Obama's health reform plans.</p><p>"You can choose to take the millions of do...

HHS Sebelius exhorts insurers to get on board

2010-03-10T07:45:25Z

<div><p>The head of the Health and Human Services Department is sketching out a stark choice for the nation's insurers: oppose reform and eventually lose customers, or work with the Obama administration to improve the legislation.</p><p>S...

Obama attacks insurers in health care gambit

2010-03-08T10:15:43Z

<div><p>US President Barack Obama on Monday launched a new political assault on price-hiking insurance companies, seeking to build support for his last-ditch bid to pass a historic health reform bill.</p><p>Obama headed to Philadelphia to crank up his personal advocacy effort for the reforms, which are facing fateful tests in Congress, after a year of political ...

Health Overhaul

2010-03-07T10:00:24Z

FILE - In this March 4, 2010, file photo Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius speaks to reporters outside the White House in Washington after meeting there with insurance commissioners and executives. On ABC's This Week, Sunday March 7, 2010, Sebelius says health care reform would have been ...

Guests for the Sunday TV news shows

2010-03-06T01:15:10Z

<div id="subtitle">Guests for the Sunday TV news shows</div><div><p>Guest lineup for the Sunday TV news shows:</p><p>___</p><p>ABC's "This Week" — Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.</p><p>___</p><p>Reuters) - Potential Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney criticized President Barack Obama on Friday for his recent attacks on health insurance companies.</p><p>Obama has argued this week for congressional passage of a healthcare overhaul by pointing to rate increases b...

Health secretary eyes "bright light" on insurers

2010-03-04T14:45:24Z

<div><p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration stepped up pressure on health insurance companies on Thursday, calling on some of the top U.S. companies to be more public in explaining "jaw-dropping" rate increases to consumers.</p><p>Sec'y Sebelius huddles with insurers, states over double-digit health insurance rate increases</div><div><p>Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told the nation's leading health insurers Thursday to publicly justify a spate of double-digit premium hikes that have infuriated consumers in at least a half dozen states.</p><p>Meeting at the U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius meets with insurance company executives at the White House on March 4, 2010 in Washington, DC. The meeting was to discuss the problematic health insurance premium increases and the U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is seen during an interview in Vancouver, British Columbia, Saturday, Feb. 27, 2010. Sebelius is tapping a number of Olympic athletes for the First Lady's "Let's Move" campaign against childhood obesity. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

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Sebelius takes anti-obesity message to Olympics

2010-02-27T14:00:38Z

<div id="subtitle">Swifter, higher ... slimmer: Cabinet Secretary Sebelius taps Olympic athletes in obesity fight</div><div><p>Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius wants Olympic athletes to be part of the fight against childhood obesity.</p><p>"It's a great opportunity to enlist some of these world-class athletes who are heroes and heroines across America to get involved in this...

Obama awards money for electronic medical records

2010-02-22T09:54:33Z

<div><p>The Obama administration on Friday announced $975 million in grants to help states, doctors and hospitals move from paper to computerized record-keeping.</p><p>Studies show electronic medical records help reduce medical errors and improve the quality of patient care. The grant money comes from the economic stimulus passed by Congress last year and is part of a push to get healt...

WellPoint insurance hike becomes target for Obama

2010-02-22T10:07:35Z

<div id="subtitle">Obama says premium hikes by WellPoint are reason for reform, insurer blames recession, costs</div><div><p>Health insurer WellPoint blames the Great Recession and rising medical costs for its planned 39 percent rate increase for some California customers. To President Barack Obama, however, it's Exhibit A in his camp...

Insurance Rates WellPoint

2010-02-11T15:16:09Z

FILE - In this Feb. 3, 2010 file photo, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. Sebelius said Thursday, Feb. 11, 2010, "it remains difficult to understand" how premium increases of that size can be justified when Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Thursday "it remains difficult to understand" how WellPoint can justify premium increases of as much as 39 percent for some of its customers in Blue Cross plans to hike rates in California</div><div><p>In his push to move stalled health care reform, President Barack Obama is appealing to American pocketbooks by calling one health insurer's major rate hike in

Obama

2010-02-09T07:30:57Z

President Barack Obama signs a memorandum on childhood obesity, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010, in the Oval Office of the White House,Washington. Standing, from left are, Education Secretary Arne Duncan, Health an...

Health Insurer Rate Hikes

2010-02-08T14:30:54Z

FILE - In this Feb. 4, 2010 file photo, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. In a letter to the president of Anthem Blue Cross, Health and Human Servi...

Michelle Obama Obesity

2010-02-02T12:43:06Z

First Lady Michelle Obama sits with Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chairman Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, right, and Health and Human Services...