At the end of the summer, HHS will decide whether to go into production.
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Europe, the leading cancer experts in the US, and the rest of HHS (meaning CMS) disagreed.
ObamaCare is so convoluted, and HHS so incompetent, that the entitlement may explode on the launchpad.
Well, he's an HHS deputy assistant secretary for policy and the architect of the workfare waiver.
But this presumably will not be tolerated by HHS Secretary Sebelius and our President.
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The law empowers the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to monitor health insurance premium increases.
Ms. Binder cites one study from HHS that shows that medical errors still persist in large numbers.
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The crucial change is that HHS is saying they can experiment instead of complying with the law.
But HHS ended up with custody of another 660 children as their complicated legal situation was sorted out.
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The plan requested and received permission from HHS to reduce its rates by 18 percent effective August, 2011.
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It was then that HHS altered the bidding requirements to block out any company that was not Siga.
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To enable OPM and HHS to avoid duplicate SSA and retirement benefits for persons with post-1956 military service.
The move by HHS shows that politics around bashing HMOs have not changed since the health reform debate.
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What she did do was send a letter to HHS Secretary Sibelius wherein she offered a rather intriguing trade.
The new waiver was granted just hours before the Bushies filed out of HHS and the Obamadroids marched in.
Translation: HHS will let the media flurry die down and then proceed apace when no one is paying attention.
Last night, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius wrote to Governors across the country and urged them to examine this issue.
Only time will tell how committed HHS is to engaging on this front.
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HHS's last line of political defense is that the Republican Governors of Nevada and Utah asked for this change.
"HHS has not produced a single requested witness for an interview, " Lieberman said.
And for details on that process, HHS is the best place to go.
Does anyone seriously believe that HHS is handing these waivers out based on merit and need, rather than political self-interest?
But HHS explicitly states that these private plans cannot modernize the design of Medicaid insurance to make it more cost-effective.
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HHS's bandwidth is likely to be fried and its personnel overloaded by the workload of 25 exchanges or even 16.
Those who oppose the HHS mandate simply believe that government has no business compelling people to violate their religious convictions.
The Middle Disrtict of Pennsylvania decision in Goudy-Bachman v HHS is a really good read if you have the patience.
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There are a number of positions at HHS, for instance, that are still vacant and will have a big role here.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded two contracts today to biotech companies trying to provide an alternative.
But on Monday HHS decided it does have the discretion after all, with no explanation or defense of its former position.
We wouldn't be surprised if HHS is promising flexibility now only to revoke it later as a deliberate bait and switch.
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