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Displaying all articles tagged:
Hhs
what we know
Nov. 25, 2024
What Are RFK Jr.’s Plans As HHS Secretary for Trump?
Here’s what Kennedy has said he’ll do, as well as what he can and can’t do, if confirmed by the Senate.
By
Chas Danner
covid vaccines
Apr. 6, 2021
J&J Takes Over Plant Where Contractor Error Led to Loss of 15M Vaccine Doses
New reports detail past batches of discarded vaccines and doubts that Johnson & Johnson can correct the course at the plant in Baltimore.
By
Chas Danner
biden cabinet
Dec. 6, 2020
Biden Will Nominate Xavier Becerra for HHS Secretary
As California’s attorney general, Becerra helped lead the legal charge against Trump, but he lacks the health-policy experience of other contenders.
By
Chas Danner
pandemic
Oct. 25, 2020
Trump Administration Shelves COVID-Vaccine Santa Clause
Santa Claus performers would have been offered early vaccinations in exchange for their help promoting the COVID-19 vaccine.
By
Chas Danner
misinformation
Sept. 16, 2020
Trump Aide Michael Caputo Takes Leave of Absence After Facebook Rant
The former Trump campaign official baselessly accused CDC scientists of “sedition.”
By
Chas Danner
misinformation
Sept. 13, 2020
HHS Officials Altered CDC COVID-19 Reports to Help Trump
Trump-appointed officials have been interfering to protect the president’s deliberately misleading COVID-19 spin.
By
Chas Danner
trans rights
Aug. 17, 2020
Judge Blocks HHS Rollback of Trans Health Care Protections
Once again, the Trump administration is seeking to define sex discrimination on the basis of biological sex.
By
Claire Lampen
2020 elections
Sept. 27, 2019
Disgraced Former Trump Cabinet Member Wants to Be Appointed to the U.S. Senate
Tom Price flew his way out of his job as HHS Secretary with travel expenses, but is applying for an open Senate seat.
By
Ed Kilgore
Sept. 29, 2017
Who Will Replace Tom Price at Health and Human Services?
HHS Secretary Price embarrassed Donald Trump and went down the tubes. Finding a suitable replacement won’t be easy.
By
Ed Kilgore
Sept. 25, 2017
HHS Secretary Tom Price Has Given Up His Private-Jet Habit, for Now
He acknowledges, “The optics in some of this don’t look good.”
By
Margaret Hartmann
ethics
Sept. 21, 2017
HHS: Tom Price Spent $300K on Private Jets Because He’s a Man of the People
When asked why he took 24 flights on private charter planes since May, HHS said Price is “focused on hearing from Americans across the country.”
By
Margaret Hartmann
Aug. 1, 2017
Tom Price at HHS Is Just What the Doctors Ordered
Out of the spotlight, HHS secretary Tom Price has been busily dismantling regulations that hold his fellow physicians accountable for results.
By
Ed Kilgore
July 17, 2017
Did the ‘Kodiak Kickback’ Buy Lisa Murkowski’s Vote for Trumpcare?
No state has gotten more special treatment from the Senate (and the administration) than Murkowski’s Alaska. If it’s not enough, Trumpcare’s dead.
By
Ed Kilgore
July 14, 2017
How Many Millions Losing Health Coverage Will GOP ‘Moderates’ Find Acceptable?
Soon Republican centrists will have to decide if big insurance losses due to Medicaid cuts are okay after all.
By
Ed Kilgore
Jan. 18, 2017
Trump’s HHS Pick Stumbles in Hearing Over Questionable Purchase of Biotech Stock
He admitted something that poked a hole in the incoming administration’s official line on the controversy.
By
Ed Kilgore
Nov. 15, 2016
Bobby Jindal May Be in the Cabinet of the Man He Called an ‘Egomaniacal Madman’
He’s reportedly up for Health and Human Services Secretary.
By
Ed Kilgore