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Medicaid Spends Millions on Drugs FDA Never Approved

FDA loophole allows potentially-lethal drugs to stay in market

Associated Press Associated Press Nov 23, 08 8:02 PM CST
(Newser) - Taxpayer dollars still pay for unapproved prescription drugs that have sold for decades and are linked to dozens of deaths, the AP reports. In the past 5 years, at least $200 million has been paid for drugs like cold and pain medications that were never approved by the FDA, yet are covered by Medicaid. The problem dates back to 1962, when a bill "grandfathered" drugs already on the market, allowing them to exist without FDA approval. More »

More about:  children • FDA • death • prescription drugs • Medicaid • cold medicine • Health and Human Services • cough medicine • hydrocodone

 Daschle to Be Health Secretary 

Will head health transition

Roll Call Roll Call Nov 19, 08 11:59 AM CST
(Newser) - Former Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle has been offered, and intends to accept, a post as Barack Obama’s Secretary of Health and Human Services, Roll Call reports. Daschle will also head the health care policy transition group. Nearly all of Obama’s transition policy working group heads are expected to land in top administration jobs. More »

More about:  Barack Obama • President Obama • Cabinet • Tom Daschle • Health and Human Services • Health and Human Services Department

Bush Rule Shields Docs Who Deny Women Abortions, Pill

New regulation lets health care workers refuse 'immoral' work

Washington Post Washington Post Aug 22, 08 5:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - Doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other health care workers would have the right to refuse to provide abortion services, contraception or even information on preventing or ending pregnancies under a controversial new regulation issued by the Bush administration. The proposed rule would force hospitals, clinics and other health care providers to accommodate employees' moral objections or lose federal funding, reports the Washington Post .   More »

More about:  abortion • contraception • Health and Human Services • conception • bioethics • Plan B • Mike Leavitt

Girl's Death Moves Philly Mayor to
Tears, Fury

Suspends 7 in uproar over starved teen

Philadelphia Inquirer Philadelphia Inquirer Aug 5, 08 12:04 PM CDT
(Newser) - Philly mayor Michael Nutter was visibly enraged today as he announced the suspension of seven city social workers who failed to prevent the starving death of a young girl, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. Nutter was responding to a grand jury report that found the negligence of caseworkers abetted Danieal Kelly’s mother in neglecting the 14-year-old cerebral palsy patient as she wasted away to 42 pounds. More »

More about:  Philadelphia • starvation • child neglect • bureaucracy • Health and Human Services • Michael Nutter • city government

Partisan Rift Stalls Health Reform, for Now

Dems will try veto override to boost
care for poor kids

Associated Press Associated Press Jan 20, 08 7:29 PM CST
(Newser) - A partisan split over health care will likely stall all attempts at reform, at least until a new president takes office next year, the AP reports. Bush's health secretary, Mike Leavitt, opposes Dem ideas about negotiating drug prices and boosting dollars for children's care. “I’m not expecting too much cooperation or bipartisanship,” said Texas GOP Rep. Joe Barton. More »

More about:  Republican • Democrats • health care • bipartisanship • partisanship • Health and Human Services • State Children's Health Insurance Program • Mike Leavitt

'Privatized' Medicare Dupes Elderly: Audits

Providers accused of cutting coverage, ignoring complaints

New York Times New York Times Oct 7, 07 8:18 PM CDT
(Newser) - Dems are likely loading political ammo after audits show that Medicare providers have cut thousands from coverage and snubbed those who complain. What's more, HIV/AIDS patients have been booted, standards flouted and phones left ringing. Dems have long opposed efforts to "privatize Medicare," but feds say the changes improve choice and slash prices, the New York Times reports. More »

More about:  doctor • elderly • prescription drugs • Medicare • Health and Human Services • insurance providers • UnitedHealth • Michael O. Leavitt

Thompson Joins Race for 2008

Claims he's the only real conservative
in the GOP field

CNN CNN Apr 2, 07 6:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - Former governor and Bush cabinet member Tommy Thompson announced  for president yesterday, staking a claim to the territory to the right of the other GOP contenders. "I am the reliable conservative, my record shows that,"  said the one-time secretary of Health and Human Services and four-term governor of Wisconsin. More »

More about:  Election 2008 • Iraq • George W. Bush • Bush administration • Republican • presidential campaign • Middle East • politics • health insurance • Wisconsin • Cabinet • presidency • Health and Human Services • Tommy Thompson

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