HHS's bandwidth is likely to be fried and its personnel overloaded by the workload of 25 exchanges or even 16.

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HHS's reputation as one of the most dysfunctional agencies is notorious.

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The cards could allow those recipients who do have drug coverage to get more drugs for the same amount of money, or perhaps not reach their out-of-pocket limits as quickly, said a spokesman for HHS's Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the agency that administers Medicare.

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Well, he's an HHS deputy assistant secretary for policy and the architect of the workfare waiver.

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Steven Larsen, the HHS official who received McDonald's email memo, said the department doesn't want employers to drop coverage over the law.

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded two contracts today to biotech companies trying to provide an alternative.

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In fact, the rates they pay for prescription drug coverage under Medicare Part D will decline this coming year, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

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Just as open data has been used to fuel multi-billion dollar industries in other sectors, like the weather industry that uses raw satellite data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has spent the last few years nurturing entrepreneurial innovation in the health space through open government data.

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"The technology has advanced in recent years to a point that we believe it could help meet a surge in demand for U.S.-based vaccine for seasonal and pandemic flu, " HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said in a statement last week.

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