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<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xml:lang="en"><title>News on Health Care Policy</title><link href="http://healthcarepolicyinfo.com/topic/health-care-policy" rel="alternate"></link><id>http://healthcarepolicyinfo.com/topic/health-care-policy</id><updated>2011-12-19T10:00:24Z</updated><entry><title>Supreme Court sets Obama healthcare arguments</title><link href="http://healthcarepolicyinfo.com/supreme-court-sets-obama-healthcare-arguments-4879075a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-12-19T10:00:24Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Politics News</name></author><id>tag:healthcarepolicyinfo.com,2011-12-19:/supreme-court-sets-obama-healthcare-arguments-4879075a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;WASHINGTON&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - Oral arguments on &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Barack Obama" href="/topic/Barack+Obama" &gt;President Barack Obama&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;'s sweeping &lt;span&gt;U.S.&lt;/span&gt; healthcare overhaul will last 5-1/2 hours spread over three days from March 26-28, the &lt;a title="U.S. Supreme Court" href="/topic/U.S.+Supreme+Court" &gt;Supreme Court&lt;/a&gt; said on Monday.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Supreme Court last month agreed to hear the...</summary><category term="Personal Finance"></category><category term="Health Care Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Issues"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="U.S. Department of Health and Human Services"></category><category term="Medicaid"></category><category term="Florida"></category><category term="U.S. Supreme Court"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="Barack Obama"></category><category term="National Federation of Independent Business"></category><category term="Insurance"></category></entry><entry><title>High court sets Obama healthcare arguments</title><link href="http://healthcarepolicyinfo.com/high-court-sets-obama-healthcare-arguments-4879072a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-12-19T10:00:20Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Health News</name></author><id>tag:healthcarepolicyinfo.com,2011-12-19:/high-court-sets-obama-healthcare-arguments-4879072a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;WASHINGTON&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - Oral arguments on &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Barack Obama" href="/topic/Barack+Obama" &gt;President Barack Obama&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;'s sweeping &lt;span&gt;U.S.&lt;/span&gt; healthcare overhaul will last 5-1/2 hours spread over three days from March 26-28, the &lt;span&gt;Supreme Court&lt;/span&gt; said on Monday.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a title="U.S. Supreme Court" href="/topic/U.S.+Supreme+Court" &gt;Supreme Court&lt;/a&gt; last month agree...</summary><category term="Personal Finance"></category><category term="Health Care Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Issues"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="U.S. Department of Health and Human Services"></category><category term="Medicaid"></category><category term="Florida"></category><category term="U.S. Supreme Court"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="Barack Obama"></category><category term="National Federation of Independent Business"></category><category term="Insurance"></category></entry><entry><title>2.5 million young adults insured due to reforms: U.S.</title><link href="http://healthcarepolicyinfo.com/25-million-young-adults-insured-due-reforms-4876180a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-12-14T10:30:15Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Health News</name></author><id>tag:healthcarepolicyinfo.com,2011-12-14:/25-million-young-adults-insured-due-reforms-4876180a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - &lt;a title="United States" href="/topic/United+States" &gt;U.S.&lt;/a&gt; healthcare reforms have enabled 2.5 million young adults to obtain insurance coverage, the U.S. government said on Wednesday, up from 1 million earlier this year.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Federal officials credited the gains to the &lt;span id="patient_protection_and_affordable_care_act" class="inform"&gt;&lt;a title="Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" hr...</summary><category term="Personal Finance"></category><category term="Political Policy"></category><category term="Domestic Policy"></category><category term="Social Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Issues"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="U.S. Department of Health and Human Services"></category><category term="U.S. Supreme Court"></category><category term="Centers for Disease Control and Prevention"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="Barack Obama"></category><category term="Kathleen Sebelius"></category><category term="Paying for Health Care"></category><category term="Insurance"></category><category term="Health Insurance"></category><category term="Health Care Reform"></category><category term="Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act"></category></entry><entry><title>Top court schedules Obama healthcare law briefs</title><link href="http://healthcarepolicyinfo.com/top-court-schedules-obama-healthcare-law-briefs-4872496a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-12-08T15:00:43Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Politics News</name></author><id>tag:healthcarepolicyinfo.com,2011-12-08:/top-court-schedules-obama-healthcare-law-briefs-4872496a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;WASHINGTON&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - The &lt;span&gt;Supreme Court&lt;/span&gt; on Thursday set the schedule for briefs to be filed ahead of hearing arguments in late March over &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Barack Obama" href="/topic/Barack+Obama" &gt;President Barack Obama&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;'s sweeping healthcare overhaul law.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The high court agreed to a proposal by the three main parties in the legal battle and by two attorneys who have be...</summary><category term="Personal Finance"></category><category term="Politics"></category><category term="Political Policy"></category><category term="Domestic Policy"></category><category term="Social Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Issues"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="U.S. Congress"></category><category term="U.S. Department of Health and Human Services"></category><category term="Medicaid"></category><category term="U.S. Supreme Court"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="Barack Obama"></category><category term="National Federation of Independent Business"></category><category term="Paying for Health Care"></category><category term="Todd Eastham"></category><category term="Insurance"></category><category term="Health Insurance"></category></entry><entry><title>Obama supports less access to morning-after pill</title><link href="http://healthcarepolicyinfo.com/obama-supports-access-morningafter-pill-4872239a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-12-08T10:30:24Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Health News</name></author><id>tag:healthcarepolicyinfo.com,2011-12-08:/obama-supports-access-morningafter-pill-4872239a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;WASHINGTON&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Barack Obama" href="/topic/Barack+Obama" &gt;President Barack Obama&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; said on Thursday he supports a controversial decision by the &lt;span&gt;U.S.&lt;/span&gt; health secretary to overrule government scientists about access to an emergency contraceptive known as the morning-after pill.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Obama said he backs Wednesday's decision by &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Kathleen Sebe...</summary><category term="Sexuality"></category><category term="Politics"></category><category term="Political Policy"></category><category term="Domestic Policy"></category><category term="Social Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Issues"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Food and Drug Administration"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="Barack Obama"></category><category term="Kathleen Sebelius"></category><category term="Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd."></category><category term="Tabassum Zakaria"></category><category term="Plan B Contraceptive"></category></entry><entry><title>Health Secretary blocks easier access to morning-after pill</title><link href="http://healthcarepolicyinfo.com/health-secretary-blocks-easier-access-morningafter-pill-4871705a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-12-07T15:00:24Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Health News</name></author><id>tag:healthcarepolicyinfo.com,2011-12-07:/health-secretary-blocks-easier-access-morningafter-pill-4871705a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - The health secretary overruled government scientists and refused to bring the controversial morning-after pill from behind the pharmacy counter and onto drugstore shelves.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Kathleen Sebelius" href="/topic/Kathleen+Sebelius" &gt;Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; on Wednesday used her power to trump the &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Food and Drug Administration" hre...</summary><category term="Politics"></category><category term="Political Policy"></category><category term="Domestic Policy"></category><category term="Social Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Issues"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="George W. Bush"></category><category term="The White House"></category><category term="Food and Drug Administration"></category><category term="Office of Women's Health"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="Barack Obama"></category><category term="Hamburg"></category><category term="Kathleen Sebelius"></category><category term="Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd."></category><category term="Margaret Hamburg"></category><category term="Susan Wood"></category><category term="Plan B Contraceptive"></category></entry><entry><title>Getting serious about health care security</title><link href="http://healthcarepolicyinfo.com/health-care-security-4871282a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-12-07T04:30:17Z</updated><author><name>SC Magazine</name></author><id>tag:healthcarepolicyinfo.com,2011-12-07:/health-care-security-4871282a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div id="subtitle"&gt;Health care providers and their patients both have parts to play in the high-stakes game of protecting sensitive medical information, especially as technology becomes easier to implement and enforcement of regulations intensifies.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Let's be truthful. Being compliant with the Healthcare Insurance Portability Act and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 and even its subsequent Privacy and Security rules alone is really like doing the barest of minimums possible to secu...</summary><category term="Politics"></category><category term="Political Policy"></category><category term="Domestic Policy"></category><category term="Social Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Issues"></category><category term="U.S. Department of Health and Human Services"></category><category term="Richard Blumenthal"></category><category term="Health Net Inc."></category><category term="Vormetric Inc."></category><category term="HITECH Act"></category></entry><entry><title>Care home failure could be repeated, MPs warn</title><link href="http://healthcarepolicyinfo.com/care-home-failure-repeated-mps-warn-4870667a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-12-06T07:30:34Z</updated><author><name>AFP European Edition</name></author><id>tag:healthcarepolicyinfo.com,2011-12-06:/care-home-failure-repeated-mps-warn-4870667a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;The government must do more to avoid the collapse of further care homes following the fall of Southern Cross, a group of MPs warned on Tuesday.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Authorities are failing to monitor the financial health of providers, some of which are stacking up huge debts, the Public Accounts Committee said.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The warning follows the collapse of &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="United Kingdom" href="/topic/United+Kingdom" &gt;Britain&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;'s largest care home provider, Southern Cross, which operated more than ...</summary><category term="Politics"></category><category term="Political Policy"></category><category term="Domestic Policy"></category><category term="Social Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Issues"></category><category term="United Kingdom"></category><category term="Europe"></category><category term="Western Europe"></category><category term="Margaret Hodge"></category><category term="Four Seasons Health Care Ltd."></category></entry><entry><title>Obama nominates new Medicare chief, Berwick steps down</title><link href="http://healthcarepolicyinfo.com/obama-nominates-new-medicare-chief-berwick-steps-4862586a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-11-23T11:00:12Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Politics News</name></author><id>tag:healthcarepolicyinfo.com,2011-11-23:/obama-nominates-new-medicare-chief-berwick-steps-4862586a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;WASHINGTON&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - A senior &lt;span&gt;U.S.&lt;/span&gt; official who helped lead &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Barack Obama" href="/topic/Barack+Obama" &gt;President Barack Obama&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;'s healthcare overhaul will step down from the helm of the &lt;a title="Medicare" href="/topic/Medicare" &gt;Medicare&lt;/a&gt; program after &lt;span&gt;Republicans&lt;/span&gt; blocked his Senate confirmation for the job.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Obama had resubmitted the ca...</summary><category term="Domestic Policy"></category><category term="Social Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Issues"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="The White House"></category><category term="Washington, DC"></category><category term="Medicare"></category><category term="Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="Barack Obama"></category><category term="Jamie Smith"></category><category term="U.S. Republican Party"></category><category term="Donald Berwick"></category><category term="Paying for Health Care"></category><category term="Marilyn Tavenner"></category><category term="Caren Bohan"></category></entry><entry><title>Ministers to crack down on 'hidden' NHS waiting lists</title><link href="http://healthcarepolicyinfo.com/ministers-crack-hidden-nhs-waiting-lists-4858635a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-11-17T07:30:39Z</updated><author><name>AFP European Edition</name></author><id>tag:healthcarepolicyinfo.com,2011-11-17:/ministers-crack-hidden-nhs-waiting-lists-4858635a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a title="Andrew Lansley" href="/topic/Andrew+Lansley" &gt;Health Secretary Andrew Lansley&lt;/a&gt; on Thursday launched a drive to reduce the number of patients waiting more than 18 weeks for hospital treatment.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Around a quarter of a million people in &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="England" href="/topic/England" &gt;England&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; have been waiting for non-urgent treatment in England for longer than this period, Lansley said.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ministers are concerned that patients become 'forgotten' after 18...</summary><category term="Social Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Issues"></category><category term="Europe"></category><category term="Western Europe"></category><category term="British Broadcasting Corporation"></category><category term="Andrew Burnham"></category><category term="Andrew Lansley"></category><category term="England"></category></entry><entry><title>Supreme Court to take on Obama healthcare law</title><link href="http://healthcarepolicyinfo.com/supreme-court-obama-healthcare-law-4856318a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-11-14T14:30:20Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Top News</name></author><id>tag:healthcarepolicyinfo.com,2011-11-14:/supreme-court-obama-healthcare-law-4856318a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;WASHINGTON (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - The &lt;a title="U.S. Supreme Court" href="/topic/U.S.+Supreme+Court" &gt;Supreme Court&lt;/a&gt; agreed on Monday to decide the fate of &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Barack Obama" href="/topic/Barack+Obama" &gt;President Barack Obama&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;'s healthcare law, with an election-year ruling due by July on the &lt;span&gt;U.S.&lt;/span&gt; healthcare system's biggest overhaul in nearly 50 years.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A Supreme Court spokeswoma...</summary><category term="Personal Finance"></category><category term="Politics"></category><category term="Political Policy"></category><category term="Domestic Policy"></category><category term="Social Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Issues"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="The White House"></category><category term="Washington, DC"></category><category term="U.S. Congress"></category><category term="U.S. Department of Health and Human Services"></category><category term="Medicaid"></category><category term="U.S. Supreme Court"></category><category term="Cincinnati"></category><category term="Atlanta"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="Barack Obama"></category><category term="American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research"></category><category term="Norman Ornstein"></category><category term="Kathleen Sebelius"></category><category term="Anthony Kennedy"></category><category term="National Federation of Independent Business"></category><category term="Florida Office of the Attorney General"></category><category term="Paying for Health Care"></category><category term="Voting Rights Act"></category><category term="Insurance"></category><category term="Health Insurance"></category><category term="Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act"></category><category term="Social Security Act"></category></entry><entry><title>Poor worry over government heating aid cuts as winter looms</title><link href="http://healthcarepolicyinfo.com/poor-worry-government-heating-aid-cuts-winter-looms-4850849a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-11-03T09:02:10Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Domestic News</name></author><id>tag:healthcarepolicyinfo.com,2011-11-03:/poor-worry-government-heating-aid-cuts-winter-looms-4850849a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Littleton (New Hampshire)" href="/topic/Littleton+(New+Hampshire)" &gt;LITTLETON, New Hampshire&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - Last year &lt;span&gt;Carolyn Brackett&lt;/span&gt; and her family received $700 to help pay their gas bills from a federal program for low-income families -- enough to heat their home for six weeks during &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="New Hampshire" href="/topic/New+Hampshire" &gt;New Hampshire&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;'s ...</summary><category term="Politics"></category><category term="Political Policy"></category><category term="Domestic Policy"></category><category term="Social Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Issues"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="U.S. Department of Health and Human Services"></category><category term="Illinois"></category><category term="New Hampshire"></category><category term="Pennsylvania"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="Barack Obama"></category><category term="Olympia Snowe"></category><category term="Jeanne Shaheen"></category><category term="Jerry Norton"></category><category term="Littleton (New Hampshire)"></category><category term="Carolyn Brackett"></category><category term="Energy Information Administration"></category><category term="Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program"></category></entry><entry><title>Support waning for Obama healthcare law: poll</title><link href="http://healthcarepolicyinfo.com/support-waning-obama-healthcare-law-poll-4849536a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-10-27T21:30:07Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Politics News</name></author><id>tag:healthcarepolicyinfo.com,2011-10-27:/support-waning-obama-healthcare-law-poll-4849536a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - Americans' opinion of &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Barack Obama" href="/topic/Barack+Obama" &gt;President Barack Obama&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;'s healthcare reform in October reached its lowest point since the law passed in March 2010, according to a monthly poll by the non-profit, non-partisan &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation" href="/topic/Henry+J.+Kaiser+Family+Foundation" &gt;Kaiser Family Foundation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;...</summary><category term="Politics"></category><category term="Political Parties"></category><category term="Political Policy"></category><category term="Domestic Policy"></category><category term="Social Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Policy"></category><category term="U.S. Politics"></category><category term="World Politics"></category><category term="Health Care Issues"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="Barack Obama"></category><category term="U.S. Democratic Party"></category><category term="Mitt Romney"></category><category term="Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation"></category><category term="U.S. Conservative Politics"></category></entry><entry><title>DaVita says U.S. govt probes payment for infusion drugs</title><link href="http://healthcarepolicyinfo.com/davita-govt-probes-payment-infusion-drugs-4848510a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-10-25T07:00:14Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Health News</name></author><id>tag:healthcarepolicyinfo.com,2011-10-25:/davita-govt-probes-payment-infusion-drugs-4848510a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="DaVita Inc." href="/topic/DaVita+Inc." &gt;DaVita Inc&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, the biggest &lt;a title="United States" href="/topic/United+States" &gt;U.S.&lt;/a&gt; operator of dialysis clinics, said it is the subject of a government probe into payments for infusion drugs covered by the &lt;span id="medicaid" class="inform"&gt;&lt;a title="Medicaid" href="/topic/Medicaid" &gt;Medicaid&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; health program for the po...</summary><category term="Domestic Policy"></category><category term="Social Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Issues"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="New York"></category><category term="U.S. Department of Health and Human Services"></category><category term="Medicaid"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="Bangalore"></category><category term="DaVita Inc."></category><category term="Paying for Health Care"></category><category term="New York Stock Exchange"></category></entry><entry><title>Obama To Honor Gay Rights Advocate Janice Langbehn With Citizens Medal</title><link href="http://healthcarepolicyinfo.com/obama-honor-gay-rights-advocate-janice-langbehn-citizens-medal-4843226a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-10-12T11:30:13Z</updated><author><name>On Top Magazine</name></author><id>tag:healthcarepolicyinfo.com,2011-10-12:/obama-honor-gay-rights-advocate-janice-langbehn-citizens-medal-4843226a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div id="subtitle"&gt;&lt;a title="Barack Obama" href="/topic/Barack+Obama" &gt;President Barack Obama&lt;/a&gt; will honor gay rights advocate &lt;a title="Janice Langbehn" href="/topic/Janice+Langbehn" &gt;Janice Langbehn&lt;/a&gt; with the Presidential Citizens Medal at an October 20 reception&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;President Barack Obama will honor gay rights advocate Janice Langbehn with the Presidential Citizens Medal at an October 20 reception.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Langbehn is among the 13 recipients this year to receive the nation's s...</summary><category term="Politics"></category><category term="Political Policy"></category><category term="Domestic Policy"></category><category term="Social Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Policy"></category><category term="U.S. Politics"></category><category term="World Politics"></category><category term="Health Care Issues"></category><category term="Social Issues"></category><category term="U.S. Department of Health and Human Services"></category><category term="Miami"></category><category term="Barack Obama"></category><category term="Jackson Health System"></category><category term="LGBT Issues"></category><category term="Janice Langbehn"></category><category term="Lisa Pond"></category></entry><entry><title>Lords to debate health reforms as opposition grows</title><link href="http://healthcarepolicyinfo.com/lords-debate-health-reforms-opposition-grows-4842664a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-10-11T08:30:37Z</updated><author><name>AFP European Edition</name></author><id>tag:healthcarepolicyinfo.com,2011-10-11:/lords-debate-health-reforms-opposition-grows-4842664a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Controversial health reforms will be debated in the &lt;a title="House of Lords" href="/topic/House+of+Lords" &gt;House of Lords&lt;/a&gt; on Tuesday as mounting opposition to the plans threatens to derail them.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Medical professionals have urged ministers to scrap or significantly rewrite the Health and Social Care Bill while &lt;a title="Labour Party (UK)" href="/topic/Labour+Party+(UK)" &gt;Labour&lt;/a&gt; politicians are pushing for it to be delayed or dropped entirely.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In a letter to The Indepen...</summary><category term="Politics"></category><category term="Political Policy"></category><category term="Domestic Policy"></category><category term="Social Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Issues"></category><category term="United Kingdom"></category><category term="Europe"></category><category term="Western Europe"></category><category term="Will Self"></category><category term="House of Lords"></category><category term="Andrew Burnham"></category><category term="Vivienne Westwood"></category><category term="Labour Party (UK)"></category><category term="Andrew Lansley"></category><category term="Julie Christie"></category><category term="David Morrissey"></category><category term="Westminster Bridge"></category></entry><entry><title>U.S. proposes direct patient access to lab tests</title><link href="http://healthcarepolicyinfo.com/proposes-direct-patient-access-lab-tests-4830644a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-09-12T12:00:47Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Domestic News</name></author><id>tag:healthcarepolicyinfo.com,2011-09-12:/proposes-direct-patient-access-lab-tests-4830644a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;WASHINGTON&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - &lt;a title="United States" href="/topic/United+States" &gt;U.S.&lt;/a&gt; medical patients would be able to get their laboratory test results directly from the labs rather than wait for a copy from their doctors under a new rule proposed by federal health officials.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;U.S. Department of &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Kathleen Sebelius" href="/topic/Kathleen+Sebelius" &gt;Health and Human Services Se...</summary><category term="Political Policy"></category><category term="Domestic Policy"></category><category term="Social Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Issues"></category><category term="Technology"></category><category term="Medical Technology"></category><category term="Health Information Technology"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="Barack Obama"></category><category term="Kathleen Sebelius"></category><category term="John Wallace"></category><category term="Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act"></category></entry><entry><title>US healthcare battle edges nearer Supreme Court</title><link href="http://healthcarepolicyinfo.com/healthcare-battle-edges-nearer-supreme-court-4829728a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-09-08T20:30:34Z</updated><author><name>AFP American Edition</name></author><id>tag:healthcarepolicyinfo.com,2011-09-08:/healthcare-battle-edges-nearer-supreme-court-4829728a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;A second US appeals court upheld &lt;a title="Barack Obama" href="/topic/Barack+Obama" &gt;President Barack Obama&lt;/a&gt;'s health care overhaul Thursday, but an earlier ruling against the plan means his signature reform is destined for the Supreme Court.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The three-judge panel of the 4th &lt;span&gt;US Circuit Court&lt;/span&gt; in &lt;span&gt;Virginia&lt;/span&gt; ruled that suits filed by &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Virginia Office of the Attorney General" href="/topic/Virginia+Office+of+the+Attorney+General" &gt;Virginia Attor...</summary><category term="Political Policy"></category><category term="Domestic Policy"></category><category term="Social Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Issues"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="The White House"></category><category term="Virginia"></category><category term="Texas"></category><category term="U.S. Supreme Court"></category><category term="U.S. Court of Appeals"></category><category term="Cincinnati"></category><category term="Atlanta"></category><category term="Barack Obama"></category><category term="CBS Corporation"></category><category term="Virginia Office of the Attorney General"></category><category term="U.S. Republican Party"></category><category term="Stephanie Cutter"></category><category term="Rick Perry"></category><category term="Diana Gribbon Motz"></category><category term="Liberty University"></category><category term="Ken Cuccinelli"></category><category term="Mathew Staver"></category><category term="Health Care Reform"></category><category term="Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act"></category></entry><entry><title>Court tosses Virginia challenge to healthcare law</title><link href="http://healthcarepolicyinfo.com/court-tosses-virginia-challenge-healthcare-law-4829434a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-09-08T09:30:29Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Politics News</name></author><id>tag:healthcarepolicyinfo.com,2011-09-08:/court-tosses-virginia-challenge-healthcare-law-4829434a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;NEW YORK&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - A federal appeals court on Thursday threw out &lt;a title="Virginia" href="/topic/Virginia" &gt;Virginia&lt;/a&gt;'s challenge to the constitutionality of the healthcare overhaul signed into law by &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Barack Obama" href="/topic/Barack+Obama" &gt;U.S. President Barack Obama&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; last year.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The 4th &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="U.S. Court of Appeals" href="/topic/U.S.+Court+of+Appea...</summary><category term="Politics"></category><category term="Political Policy"></category><category term="Domestic Policy"></category><category term="Social Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Issues"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Virginia"></category><category term="U.S. Supreme Court"></category><category term="U.S. Court of Appeals"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="Barack Obama"></category><category term="Jonathan Stempel"></category></entry><entry><title>Controversial NHS reform passes first test</title><link href="http://healthcarepolicyinfo.com/controversial-nhs-reform-passes-test-4829334a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-09-08T04:30:33Z</updated><author><name>AFP European Edition</name></author><id>tag:healthcarepolicyinfo.com,2011-09-08:/controversial-nhs-reform-passes-test-4829334a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;The proposed overhaul of the state-run National Health Service has cleared its first hurdle after MPs in the lower House of Commons voted in favour of the controversial bill.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;MPs voted for the reforms by 316 to 251 on Wednesday, but the bill now faces a difficult passage through the &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="House of Lords" href="/topic/House+of+Lords" &gt;House of Lords&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The bill has split the coalition and drawn criticism from the medical profession with critics fearing the w...</summary><category term="Politics"></category><category term="Political Policy"></category><category term="Domestic Policy"></category><category term="Social Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Policy"></category><category term="World Politics"></category><category term="European Politics"></category><category term="British Politics"></category><category term="Health Care Issues"></category><category term="David Cameron"></category><category term="House of Lords"></category><category term="Andrew Lansley"></category><category term="John Healey"></category><category term="Health Care Reform"></category></entry><entry><title>Obama Admin. Steps Up Enforcement Of Hospital Visitation Rights For Gay Couples</title><link href="http://healthcarepolicyinfo.com/obama-admin-steps-enforcement-hospital-visitation-rights-gay-couples-4828849a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-09-07T08:30:16Z</updated><author><name>On Top Magazine</name></author><id>tag:healthcarepolicyinfo.com,2011-09-07:/obama-admin-steps-enforcement-hospital-visitation-rights-gay-couples-4828849a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div id="subtitle"&gt;HHS has announced new guidance to support enforcement of an Obama memo that bans hospitals from discriminating against gay couples&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a title="U.S. Department of Health and Human Services" href="/topic/U.S.+Department+of+Health+and+Human+Services" &gt;Department of Health and Human Services&lt;/a&gt; (HHS) on Wednesday announced new guidance to support enforcement of a memo signed last April by &lt;a title="Barack Obama" href="/topic/Barack+Obama" &gt;President Barack Obama...</summary><category term="Politics"></category><category term="Political Policy"></category><category term="Domestic Policy"></category><category term="Social Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Issues"></category><category term="Social Issues"></category><category term="U.S. Department of Health and Human Services"></category><category term="Medicaid"></category><category term="Medicare"></category><category term="Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services"></category><category term="Barack Obama"></category><category term="Kathleen Sebelius"></category><category term="Donald Berwick"></category><category term="LGBT Issues"></category><category term="Paying for Health Care"></category></entry><entry><title>Analysis: Two justices may decide fate of Obama healthcare law</title><link href="http://healthcarepolicyinfo.com/analysis-justices-decide-fate-obama-healthcare-law-4819875a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-08-15T16:00:08Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Top News</name></author><id>tag:healthcarepolicyinfo.com,2011-08-15:/analysis-justices-decide-fate-obama-healthcare-law-4819875a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;WASHINGTON&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - The legal fate of &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Barack Obama" href="/topic/Barack+Obama" &gt;President Barack Obama&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;'s signature healthcare law will likely come down to two Republican appointees on the &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="U.S. Supreme Court" href="/topic/U.S.+Supreme+Court" &gt;U.S. Supreme Court&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; -- &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="John Roberts (Chief Justice)" href="/topic/John+Roberts+(Chief+...</summary><category term="Health Care Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Issues"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="George W. Bush"></category><category term="Washington, DC"></category><category term="U.S. Supreme Court"></category><category term="John Roberts (Chief Justice)"></category><category term="Samuel Alito"></category><category term="Bill Clinton"></category><category term="Atlanta"></category><category term="George Mason University"></category><category term="The George Washington University"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="Barack Obama"></category><category term="Ruth Bader Ginsburg"></category><category term="Elena Kagan"></category><category term="University of Richmond"></category><category term="Stephen Breyer"></category><category term="Clarence Thomas"></category><category term="Anthony Kennedy"></category><category term="Antonin Scalia"></category><category term="Sonia Sotomayor"></category><category term="Kevin Walsh"></category><category term="Jeremy Pelofsky"></category><category term="Health Care Reform"></category><category term="Ilya Somin"></category></entry><entry><title>Analysis: Obama healthcare law: two justices may decide fate</title><link href="http://healthcarepolicyinfo.com/analysis-obama-healthcare-law-justices-decide-fate-4819856a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-08-15T14:30:34Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Health News</name></author><id>tag:healthcarepolicyinfo.com,2011-08-15:/analysis-obama-healthcare-law-justices-decide-fate-4819856a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;WASHINGTON&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - The legal fate of &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Barack Obama" href="/topic/Barack+Obama" &gt;President Barack Obama&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;'s signature healthcare law will likely come down to two Republican appointees on the &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="U.S. Supreme Court" href="/topic/U.S.+Supreme+Court" &gt;U.S. Supreme Court&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; -- &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="John Roberts (Chief Justice)" href="/topic/John+Roberts+(Chief+...</summary><category term="Health Care Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Issues"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="George W. Bush"></category><category term="Washington, DC"></category><category term="U.S. Supreme Court"></category><category term="John Roberts (Chief Justice)"></category><category term="Samuel Alito"></category><category term="Bill Clinton"></category><category term="Atlanta"></category><category term="George Mason University"></category><category term="The George Washington University"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="Barack Obama"></category><category term="Ruth Bader Ginsburg"></category><category term="Elena Kagan"></category><category term="University of Richmond"></category><category term="Stephen Breyer"></category><category term="Clarence Thomas"></category><category term="Anthony Kennedy"></category><category term="Antonin Scalia"></category><category term="Sonia Sotomayor"></category><category term="Kevin Walsh"></category><category term="Jeremy Pelofsky"></category><category term="Health Care Reform"></category><category term="Ilya Somin"></category></entry><entry><title>UCLA Health System fined over celebrity patient snooping</title><link href="http://healthcarepolicyinfo.com/ucla-health-system-fined-celebrity-patient-snooping-4805592a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-07-12T04:30:11Z</updated><author><name>SC Magazine</name></author><id>tag:healthcarepolicyinfo.com,2011-07-12:/ucla-health-system-fined-celebrity-patient-snooping-4805592a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div id="subtitle"&gt;&lt;a title="University of California-Los Angeles" href="/topic/University+of+California-Los+Angeles" &gt;UCLA&lt;/a&gt; Health System must pay $865,500 as part of a settlement with the &lt;a title="U.S. Department of Health and Human Services" href="/topic/U.S.+Department+of+Health+and+Human+Services" &gt;U.S. Department of Health and Human Services&lt;/a&gt; (HHS) over complaints that employees snooped on the health records of two celebrities.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;UCLA Health System must pay $865,500 as pa...</summary><category term="Politics"></category><category term="Political Policy"></category><category term="Domestic Policy"></category><category term="Social Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Issues"></category><category term="Health Care Services Sector"></category><category term="Hospitals"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="U.S. Department of Health and Human Services"></category><category term="Los Angeles"></category><category term="California"></category><category term="University of California-Los Angeles"></category><category term="Massachusetts General Hospital"></category><category term="California Department of Public Health"></category><category term="Britney Spears"></category><category term="Maria Shriver"></category><category term="Farrah Fawcett"></category><category term="UCLA Medical Center"></category><category term="Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act"></category><category term="HITECH Act"></category></entry><entry><title>U.S. to clarify how insurance exchanges will work</title><link href="http://healthcarepolicyinfo.com/clarify-insurance-exchanges-work-4805163a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-07-11T07:00:40Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Health News</name></author><id>tag:healthcarepolicyinfo.com,2011-07-11:/clarify-insurance-exchanges-work-4805163a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;WASHINGTON&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - States deciding whether to set up health insurance exchanges will get more information on Monday when the &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Barack Obama" href="/topic/Barack+Obama" &gt;Obama administration&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; reveals more on how these complex marketplaces will work.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The federal government has so far given few details on this transformative part of the healthcare overhaul passed las...</summary><category term="Personal Finance"></category><category term="Politics"></category><category term="Political Policy"></category><category term="Domestic Policy"></category><category term="Social Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Issues"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Washington, DC"></category><category term="Medicaid"></category><category term="Kansas"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="Barack Obama"></category><category term="National Governors Association"></category><category term="Center on Budget and Policy Priorities"></category><category term="Kathleen Sebelius"></category><category term="Paying for Health Care"></category><category term="Insurance"></category><category term="Health Insurance"></category><category term="Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act"></category><category term="Huffington Post"></category></entry><entry><title>Big Medicare cuts to reduce deficit unpopular: poll</title><link href="http://healthcarepolicyinfo.com/big-medicare-cuts-reduce-deficit-unpopular-poll-4800929a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-06-30T13:00:30Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Politics News</name></author><id>tag:healthcarepolicyinfo.com,2011-06-30:/big-medicare-cuts-reduce-deficit-unpopular-poll-4800929a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;WASHINGTON&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - Few Americans would support major cuts to &lt;a title="Medicare" href="/topic/Medicare" &gt;Medicare&lt;/a&gt; to reduce the federal deficit, but many would be okay with minor savings in the popular healthcare program, a survey released on Thursday said.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The latest tracking survey on healthcare issues by the &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation" href="/topic/Henry+J.+...</summary><category term="Politics"></category><category term="Political Policy"></category><category term="Domestic Policy"></category><category term="Economic Policy"></category><category term="Tax Policy"></category><category term="Social Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Policy"></category><category term="Public Finance"></category><category term="Federal Budget"></category><category term="Federal Deficits"></category><category term="Government Spending"></category><category term="Social Services Funding"></category><category term="Health Care Issues"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Medicare"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="U.S. Republican Party"></category><category term="Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation"></category><category term="Donna Smith"></category><category term="Paying for Health Care"></category></entry><entry><title>Former labour minister says NHS reforms 'a car crash'</title><link href="http://healthcarepolicyinfo.com/labour-minister-nhs-reforms-car-crash-4794546a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-06-16T07:30:43Z</updated><author><name>AFP European Edition</name></author><id>tag:healthcarepolicyinfo.com,2011-06-16:/labour-minister-nhs-reforms-car-crash-4794546a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Former health secretary &lt;a title="Alan Milburn" href="/topic/Alan+Milburn" &gt;Alan Milburn&lt;/a&gt; has launched a blistering attack on the coalition government's NHS reforms, calling them the "biggest car crash" in the service's 63-year history.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The former &lt;span&gt;Labour&lt;/span&gt; minister who was appointed as &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="David Cameron" href="/topic/David+Cameron" &gt;David Cameron&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;'s social mobility tzar in 2010 described the coalition's proposed health reforms as the "biggest nat...</summary><category term="Politics"></category><category term="Political Policy"></category><category term="Domestic Policy"></category><category term="Social Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Policy"></category><category term="World Politics"></category><category term="European Politics"></category><category term="British Politics"></category><category term="Health Care Issues"></category><category term="Accidents and Disasters"></category><category term="Transportation"></category><category term="Traffic Accidents"></category><category term="Gordon Brown"></category><category term="David Cameron"></category><category term="Tony Blair"></category><category term="Labour Party (UK)"></category><category term="Alan Milburn"></category><category term="Aneurin Bevan"></category><category term="Nick Clegg"></category></entry><entry><title>Review to back changes to NHS reforms</title><link href="http://healthcarepolicyinfo.com/review-nhs-reforms-4793063a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-06-13T09:31:07Z</updated><author><name>AFP European Edition</name></author><id>tag:healthcarepolicyinfo.com,2011-06-13:/review-nhs-reforms-4793063a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Medical experts were Monday to back sweeping changes to planned reforms of the NHS, an issue that has inflamed tensions in the coalition government.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The NHS Future Forum, an independent body which has carried out a two-month consultation on the proposals, is expected to recommend significant changes following widespread criticism of the plans.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The government will respond to the recommendations on Tuesday but is expected to agree to make amendments after &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="David ...</summary><category term="Social Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Issues"></category><category term="David Cameron"></category><category term="Liberal Democrats (UK)"></category><category term="Andrew Lansley"></category><category term="John Healey"></category><category term="Nick Clegg"></category></entry><entry><title>House committee not to move Medicare plan</title><link href="http://healthcarepolicyinfo.com/house-committee-move-medicare-plan-4776629a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-05-05T06:30:38Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Politics News</name></author><id>tag:healthcarepolicyinfo.com,2011-05-05:/house-committee-move-medicare-plan-4776629a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;WASHINGTON&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Dave Camp" href="/topic/Dave+Camp" &gt;Dave Camp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; said on Thursday his panel has no plans on moving forward on a Republican proposal that would privatize the &lt;a title="Medicare" href="/topic/Medicare" &gt;Medicare&lt;/a&gt; health program for future retirees.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;"I'm not really interested in just laying down more marke...</summary><category term="Politics"></category><category term="Political Policy"></category><category term="Domestic Policy"></category><category term="Social Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Issues"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Medicare"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="Dave Camp"></category><category term="Donna Smith"></category></entry><entry><title>Lansley says sorry to nurses over UK health reforms</title><link href="http://healthcarepolicyinfo.com/lansley-nurses-uk-health-reforms-4767349a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-04-13T13:30:32Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Health News</name></author><id>tag:healthcarepolicyinfo.com,2011-04-13:/lansley-nurses-uk-health-reforms-4767349a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;LONDON&lt;/span&gt;(&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - Health Secretary &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Andrew Lansley" href="/topic/Andrew+Lansley" &gt;Andrew Lansley&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; apologized for the poor communication of his health reforms and said changes would be made to draft legislation after nurses passed a vote of no confidence in him.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;At their annual conference on Wednesday, members of the powerful &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Royal College of Nursing" ...</summary><category term="Politics"></category><category term="Political Parties"></category><category term="Political Policy"></category><category term="Domestic Policy"></category><category term="Social Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Issues"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="Royal College of Nursing"></category><category term="Andrew Lansley"></category><category term="Ed Miliband"></category><category term="Health Care Reform"></category></entry><entry><title>Health Secretary loses nurses' confidence vote</title><link href="http://healthcarepolicyinfo.com/health-secretary-loses-nurses-confidence-vote-4767297a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-04-13T11:30:16Z</updated><author><name>AFP European Edition</name></author><id>tag:healthcarepolicyinfo.com,2011-04-13:/health-secretary-loses-nurses-confidence-vote-4767297a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Nurses attending the &lt;a title="Royal College of Nursing" href="/topic/Royal+College+of+Nursing" &gt;Royal College of Nursing&lt;/a&gt; conference on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly in favour of a motion saying they have "no confidence" in Health Secretary Andrew Lansley's steering of NHS reforms.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some 96 percent of the 497 delegates at the RCN conference in &lt;span&gt;Liverpool&lt;/span&gt; voted in favour of the motion.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Medical groups such as the RCN and &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="British Medical Associati...</summary><category term="Politics"></category><category term="Political Policy"></category><category term="Domestic Policy"></category><category term="Social Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Policy"></category><category term="World Politics"></category><category term="European Politics"></category><category term="British Politics"></category><category term="Health Care Issues"></category><category term="Europe"></category><category term="Western Europe"></category><category term="David Cameron"></category><category term="British Medical Association"></category><category term="Royal College of Nursing"></category><category term="Andrew Lansley"></category><category term="England"></category></entry><entry><title>Furious nurses vote "no confidence" in UK</title><link href="http://healthcarepolicyinfo.com/furious-nurses-vote-confidence-uk-4767237a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-04-13T10:00:23Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Health News</name></author><id>tag:healthcarepolicyinfo.com,2011-04-13:/furious-nurses-vote-confidence-uk-4767237a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;LONDON&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - Nurses overwhelmingly passed a vote of no confidence in &lt;span&gt;Health Secretary &lt;a title="Andrew Lansley" href="/topic/Andrew+Lansley" &gt;Andrew Lansley&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;'s handling of health reforms on Wednesday, warning budget cuts could have "catastrophic" consequences for patient care.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;At their annual conference, members of the powerful &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Royal College of Nursing" ...</summary><category term="Politics"></category><category term="Political Parties"></category><category term="Political Policy"></category><category term="Domestic Policy"></category><category term="Social Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Issues"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="Royal College of Nursing"></category><category term="Andrew Lansley"></category><category term="Ed Miliband"></category><category term="Health Care Reform"></category></entry><entry><title>NHS job cuts to hit frontline staff, union warns</title><link href="http://healthcarepolicyinfo.com/nhs-job-cuts-hit-frontline-staff-union-warns-4766142a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-04-11T07:30:27Z</updated><author><name>AFP European Edition</name></author><id>tag:healthcarepolicyinfo.com,2011-04-11:/nhs-job-cuts-hit-frontline-staff-union-warns-4766142a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Frontline job cuts in the NHS will have "catastrophic consequences" for patient safety and care, with nurses accounting for almost half of all positions to be axed, a nursing union warned on Monday.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Royal College of Nursing" href="/topic/Royal+College+of+Nursing" &gt;Royal College of Nursing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; (RCN) looked at 21 NHS trusts in &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="England" href="/topic/England" &gt;England&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; and found that 54 percent -- 5,209 -- of nearly 10,000 posts due ...</summary><category term="Economic Indicators"></category><category term="Labor Market"></category><category term="Jobs and Labor"></category><category term="Layoffs and Downsizing"></category><category term="Economies"></category><category term="Politics"></category><category term="Political Policy"></category><category term="Domestic Policy"></category><category term="Social Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Policy"></category><category term="World Politics"></category><category term="European Politics"></category><category term="British Politics"></category><category term="War and Conflict"></category><category term="Health Care Issues"></category><category term="Europe"></category><category term="Western Europe"></category><category term="British Broadcasting Corporation"></category><category term="David Cameron"></category><category term="Royal College of Nursing"></category><category term="Andrew Lansley"></category><category term="Norman Lamb"></category><category term="England"></category><category term="Job Losses"></category></entry><entry><title>Senate votes to repeal healthcare tax measure</title><link href="http://healthcarepolicyinfo.com/senate-votes-repeal-healthcare-tax-measure-4763851a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-04-05T15:00:13Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Health News</name></author><id>tag:healthcarepolicyinfo.com,2011-04-05:/senate-votes-repeal-healthcare-tax-measure-4763851a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;WASHINGTON&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - Bowing to pressure from business groups worried about an avalanche of paperwork, the Senate voted on Tuesday to rescind a tax-reporting requirement included in last year's healthcare overhaul law.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;With bipartisan support, the Senate voted 87-12 to pass legislation sponsored by &lt;span&gt;Republican Senator &lt;a title="Mike Johanns" href="/topic/Mike+Johanns" &gt;Mike Johanns&lt;/a&gt;...</summary><category term="Personal Finance"></category><category term="Small Business"></category><category term="Politics"></category><category term="Political Policy"></category><category term="Domestic Policy"></category><category term="Price Controls and Subsidies"></category><category term="Social Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Policy"></category><category term="U.S. Politics"></category><category term="World Politics"></category><category term="U.S. Congressional Politics"></category><category term="Health Care Issues"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="U.S. Congress"></category><category term="U.S. Department of the Treasury"></category><category term="U.S. House of Representatives"></category><category term="Internal Revenue Service"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="Barack Obama"></category><category term="U.S. Democratic Party"></category><category term="Mike Johanns"></category><category term="Paying for Health Care"></category><category term="Insurance"></category><category term="Health Insurance"></category></entry><entry><title>Miliband blasts coalition's 'dangerous' NHS reforms</title><link href="http://healthcarepolicyinfo.com/miliband-blasts-coalitions-dangerous-nhs-reforms-4763184a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-04-04T09:30:46Z</updated><author><name>AFP European Edition</name></author><id>tag:healthcarepolicyinfo.com,2011-04-04:/miliband-blasts-coalitions-dangerous-nhs-reforms-4763184a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Labour leader &lt;a title="Ed Miliband" href="/topic/Ed+Miliband" &gt;Ed Miliband&lt;/a&gt; on Monday slammed the government's plans to reform the NHS in &lt;a title="England" href="/topic/England" &gt;England&lt;/a&gt;, saying the policy had descended into "utter confusion and chaos".&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Health and Social Care Bill, which would place GPs in control of commissioning most health services, is "a bad bill, built on bad assumptions and dangerous ideology", Miliband said in a speech in &lt;span&gt;London&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;/...</summary><category term="Politics"></category><category term="Political Policy"></category><category term="Domestic Policy"></category><category term="Social Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Policy"></category><category term="World Politics"></category><category term="European Politics"></category><category term="British Politics"></category><category term="Health Care Issues"></category><category term="Europe"></category><category term="Western Europe"></category><category term="David Cameron"></category><category term="Downing Street"></category><category term="Royal College of General Practitioners"></category><category term="Andrew Lansley"></category><category term="Ed Miliband"></category><category term="England"></category><category term="Nick Clegg"></category></entry><entry><title>Philippines needs a reproductive health policy: U.N.</title><link href="http://healthcarepolicyinfo.com/philippines-reproductive-health-policy-4762242a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-04-01T09:30:36Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Health News</name></author><id>tag:healthcarepolicyinfo.com,2011-04-01:/philippines-reproductive-health-policy-4762242a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;MANILA&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - The Philippines, where an average of 11 women a day die giving birth, could lower its high maternal death rate by having a reproductive health policy, a visiting &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="United Nations" href="/topic/United+Nations" &gt;United Nations&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; delegation said on Friday.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;"The absence of a national reproductive health policy, especially for the poorest, is a vital conc...</summary><category term="Domestic Policy"></category><category term="Social Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Policy"></category><category term="Public Health Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Issues"></category><category term="Sexual and Reproductive Health"></category><category term="Birth Control"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Asia"></category><category term="Women's Health"></category><category term="Philippines"></category><category term="Malawi"></category><category term="United Nations"></category><category term="Southeast Asia"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="Prenatal Health, Labor and Delivery"></category><category term="The Roman Catholic Church"></category><category term="Mindanao"></category><category term="Millennium Development Goals"></category></entry><entry><title>President's &amp;#212;opt-out' stance may force health care law onto crowded docket</title><link href="http://healthcarepolicyinfo.com/presidents-23212optout-stance-force-health-care-law-crowded-docket-4760329a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-03-29T03:31:51Z</updated><author><name>Las Vegas Sun</name></author><id>tag:healthcarepolicyinfo.com,2011-03-29:/presidents-23212optout-stance-force-health-care-law-crowded-docket-4760329a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;WASHINGTON&lt;/span&gt; - &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Nevada" href="/topic/Nevada" &gt;Nevada&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; has joined 20 states to have the new federal health care law declared unconstitutional. At the same time, &lt;span&gt;Gov. &lt;a title="Brian Sandoval" href="/topic/Brian+Sandoval" &gt;Brian Sandoval&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; has ordered the state to begin implementing it because at this point, it's the law of the land.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now, Nevada might not have to travel those divergent paths.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Last week, &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Barack O...</summary><category term="Politics"></category><category term="Political Policy"></category><category term="Domestic Policy"></category><category term="Social Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Issues"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="U.S. Department of Health and Human Services"></category><category term="Medicaid"></category><category term="California"></category><category term="North Dakota"></category><category term="Nevada"></category><category term="Barack Obama"></category><category term="Las Vegas Sun"></category><category term="U.S. Republican Party"></category><category term="Nevada State Legislature"></category><category term="National Governors Association"></category><category term="Stephanie Cutter"></category><category term="Shelley Berkley"></category><category term="Dean Heller"></category><category term="Duarte"></category><category term="Paying for Health Care"></category><category term="Brian Sandoval"></category><category term="Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act"></category></entry><entry><title>States face up to "new reality" of U.S. healthcare</title><link href="http://healthcarepolicyinfo.com/states-face-new-reality-healthcare-4757946a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-03-23T15:00:34Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Health News</name></author><id>tag:healthcarepolicyinfo.com,2011-03-23:/states-face-new-reality-healthcare-4757946a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;WASHINGTON&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - &lt;span&gt;Chris Molendorp&lt;/span&gt;, a &lt;span&gt;Missouri&lt;/span&gt; state legislator, actively opposed the federal healthcare plan, even supporting a ballot measure rebuking the massive changes to the &lt;a title="United States" href="/topic/United+States" &gt;U.S.&lt;/a&gt; health industry.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Recently, however, he has had a slight change of heart.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;"I didn't want the federal healthcare law....</summary><category term="Political Policy"></category><category term="Domestic Policy"></category><category term="Social Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Issues"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Medicaid"></category><category term="Texas"></category><category term="U.S. Supreme Court"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="Barack Obama"></category><category term="National Conference of State Legislatures"></category><category term="Heritage Foundation"></category><category term="Michael Burgess"></category><category term="National Academy for State Health Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Reform"></category><category term="Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act"></category></entry><entry><title>Sisters accused of health fraud nabbed in Colombia</title><link href="http://healthcarepolicyinfo.com/sisters-accused-health-fraud-nabbed-colombia-4754997a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-03-16T15:00:48Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Health News</name></author><id>tag:healthcarepolicyinfo.com,2011-03-16:/sisters-accused-health-fraud-nabbed-colombia-4754997a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Detroit" href="/topic/Detroit" &gt;DETROIT&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - Two sisters accused of falsifying health care claims to defraud the U.S. government of millions of dollars were nabbed in &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Colombia" href="/topic/Colombia" &gt;Colombia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; and returned to the &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="United States" href="/topic/United+States" &gt;United States&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, authorities said on Tuesday.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;...</summary><category term="Politics"></category><category term="Political Policy"></category><category term="Domestic Policy"></category><category term="Social Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Issues"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Federal Bureau of Investigation"></category><category term="U.S. Department of Health and Human Services"></category><category term="Medicare"></category><category term="Colombia"></category><category term="South America"></category><category term="Venezuela"></category><category term="Detroit"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="Dearborn (Michigan)"></category><category term="Eric Holder"></category><category term="Kathleen Sebelius"></category><category term="Barbara McQuade"></category></entry><entry><title>Two sisters accused of health fraud nabbed in Colombia</title><link href="http://healthcarepolicyinfo.com/sisters-accused-health-fraud-nabbed-colombia-4754534a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-03-15T17:30:29Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Domestic News</name></author><id>tag:healthcarepolicyinfo.com,2011-03-15:/sisters-accused-health-fraud-nabbed-colombia-4754534a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Detroit" href="/topic/Detroit" &gt;DETROIT&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - Two sisters accused of falsifying health care claims to defraud the government of millions of dollars were nabbed in &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Colombia" href="/topic/Colombia" &gt;Colombia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; and returned to the &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="United States" href="/topic/United+States" &gt;United States&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, authorities said on Tuesday.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;...</summary><category term="Politics"></category><category term="Political Policy"></category><category term="Domestic Policy"></category><category term="Social Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Issues"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Federal Bureau of Investigation"></category><category term="U.S. Department of Health and Human Services"></category><category term="Medicare"></category><category term="Colombia"></category><category term="South America"></category><category term="Venezuela"></category><category term="Detroit"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="Dearborn (Michigan)"></category><category term="Eric Holder"></category><category term="Kathleen Sebelius"></category><category term="Barbara McQuade"></category></entry><entry><title>Health experts sound warning over iodine rush</title><link href="http://healthcarepolicyinfo.com/health-experts-sound-warning-iodine-rush-4754439a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-03-15T14:30:31Z</updated><author><name>AFP Global Edition</name></author><id>tag:healthcarepolicyinfo.com,2011-03-15:/health-experts-sound-warning-iodine-rush-4754439a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;a title="Japan" href="/topic/Japan" &gt;Japan&lt;/a&gt;'s nuclear crisis has sparked panic buying of iodine pills, with online bids exceeding $500 for one packet, but health experts hosed down the hysteria and warned the pills are of limited use.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;As fresh blasts rocked a stricken atomic plant on Japan's east coast, and crews worked frantically to cool reactors that emitted dangerous levels of radiation near the facility, jitters spread to &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Tokyo" href="/topic/Tokyo" &gt;Tokyo&lt;...</summary><category term="Politics"></category><category term="Political Policy"></category><category term="Domestic Policy"></category><category term="Social Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Policy"></category><category term="World Politics"></category><category term="Asia-Pacific Politics"></category><category term="Japanese Politics"></category><category term="Health Care Issues"></category><category term="China"></category><category term="Japan"></category><category term="Hong Kong"></category><category term="Asia"></category><category term="World Health Organization"></category><category term="Philippines"></category><category term="United Nations"></category><category term="Southeast Asia"></category><category term="Malaysia"></category><category term="British Broadcasting Corporation"></category><category term="Tokyo"></category><category term="eBay Inc."></category><category term="Twitter Inc."></category><category term="East Asia"></category><category term="Taiwan"></category><category term="Taipei"></category><category term="Kuala Lumpur"></category><category term="The Chinese University of Hong Kong"></category><category term="Fukushima"></category></entry><entry><title>UK to ban displays of cigarettes, tobacco in shops</title><link href="http://healthcarepolicyinfo.com/uk-ban-displays-cigarettes-tobacco-shops-4751684a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-03-09T04:30:37Z</updated><author><name>Reuters Life! Online Report</name></author><id>tag:healthcarepolicyinfo.com,2011-03-09:/uk-ban-displays-cigarettes-tobacco-shops-4751684a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;LONDON&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - All shops in &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="England" href="/topic/England" &gt;England&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; will be banned from openly displaying tobacco products by April 2015 as part of a government package of measures to cut smoking.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Department of Health, announcing the legislation on national No Smoking Day, said the new rules would be phased in to give retailers time to adjust.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Cigaret...</summary><category term="Politics"></category><category term="Political Policy"></category><category term="Domestic Policy"></category><category term="Social Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Policy"></category><category term="World Politics"></category><category term="European Politics"></category><category term="British Politics"></category><category term="Health Care Issues"></category><category term="United Kingdom"></category><category term="Europe"></category><category term="Western Europe"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="British American Tobacco plc"></category><category term="Andrew Lansley"></category><category term="Japan Tobacco Inc."></category><category term="England"></category><category term="Pall Mall Cigarettes"></category><category term="Smoking and Tobacco Use"></category></entry><entry><title>House votes to rescind IRS reporting measure</title><link href="http://healthcarepolicyinfo.com/house-votes-rescind-irs-reporting-measure-4749472a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-03-03T12:30:24Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Politics News</name></author><id>tag:healthcarepolicyinfo.com,2011-03-03:/house-votes-rescind-irs-reporting-measure-4749472a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;WASHINGTON&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - The &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="U.S. House of Representatives" href="/topic/U.S.+House+of+Representatives" &gt;House of Representatives&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; voted on Thursday to rescind an unpopular business tax reporting requirement in the year-old healthcare law, but the measure could be delayed by a dispute with Senate Democrats over how to pay for it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The House vote was 314-112, with 76 &lt;a...</summary><category term="Political Policy"></category><category term="Domestic Policy"></category><category term="Economic Policy"></category><category term="Tax Policy"></category><category term="Social Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Issues"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="The White House"></category><category term="U.S. Congress"></category><category term="U.S. House of Representatives"></category><category term="Internal Revenue Service"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="Barack Obama"></category><category term="U.S. Democratic Party"></category><category term="John Whitesides"></category><category term="Max Baucus"></category><category term="U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means"></category><category term="Dave Camp"></category><category term="Sander Levin"></category><category term="Financial Regulatory Policy"></category></entry><entry><title>Expanding Medicaid will cost states billions: study</title><link href="http://healthcarepolicyinfo.com/expanding-medicaid-cost-states-billions-study-4749038a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-03-02T15:00:08Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Health News</name></author><id>tag:healthcarepolicyinfo.com,2011-03-02:/expanding-medicaid-cost-states-billions-study-4749038a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;WASHINGTON&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - The costs to &lt;span&gt;U.S.&lt;/span&gt; states of the &lt;a title="Medicaid" href="/topic/Medicaid" &gt;Medicaid&lt;/a&gt; insurance program for the poor will grow by hundreds of billions of dollars under the healthcare law passed last year, according to a report released by &lt;span&gt;Republicans&lt;/span&gt; in the Senate and &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="U.S. House of Representatives" href="/topic/U.S.+House+of+Repre...</summary><category term="Economic Issues"></category><category term="Social Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Policy"></category><category term="Public Finance"></category><category term="Federal Budget"></category><category term="Government Spending"></category><category term="Social Services Funding"></category><category term="Health Care Issues"></category><category term="Economic Crisis"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="U.S. Congress"></category><category term="Medicaid"></category><category term="Texas"></category><category term="U.S. House of Representatives"></category><category term="California"></category><category term="Robert Wood Johnson Foundation"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="Barack Obama"></category><category term="Deval Patrick"></category><category term="U.S. Republican Party"></category><category term="Mitt Romney"></category><category term="Center on Budget and Policy Priorities"></category><category term="Orrin Hatch"></category><category term="Haley Barbour"></category><category term="Federation of American Hospitals"></category><category term="Paying for Health Care"></category><category term="Health Care Reform"></category></entry><entry><title>House votes to block fund for healthcare law</title><link href="http://healthcarepolicyinfo.com/house-votes-block-fund-healthcare-law-4744284a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-02-18T12:30:22Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Health News</name></author><id>tag:healthcarepolicyinfo.com,2011-02-18:/house-votes-block-fund-healthcare-law-4744284a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;WASHINGTON&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - The Republican-led &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="U.S. House of Representatives" href="/topic/U.S.+House+of+Representatives" &gt;U.S. House of Representatives&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; voted on Friday to block funding of &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Barack Obama" href="/topic/Barack+Obama" &gt;President Barack Obama&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;'s landmark healthcare overhaul law, but the Democratic-led Senate seems certain to reject it.&lt;/p&gt;...</summary><category term="Politics"></category><category term="Political Policy"></category><category term="Domestic Policy"></category><category term="Social Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Issues"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="U.S. Congress"></category><category term="U.S. House of Representatives"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="Barack Obama"></category><category term="Donna Smith"></category></entry><entry><title>House to vote next week to block health funds</title><link href="http://healthcarepolicyinfo.com/house-vote-week-block-health-funds-4739843a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-02-08T13:00:22Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Top News</name></author><id>tag:healthcarepolicyinfo.com,2011-02-08:/house-vote-week-block-health-funds-4739843a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;WASHINGTON&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - The &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="U.S. House of Representatives" href="/topic/U.S.+House+of+Representatives" &gt;U.S. House of Representatives&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; will vote on whether to block funding for &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Barack Obama" href="/topic/Barack+Obama" &gt;President Barack Obama&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;'s signature healthcare overhaul when it takes up a budget plan next week, &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="U.S. Republican ...</summary><category term="Politics"></category><category term="Political Policy"></category><category term="Domestic Policy"></category><category term="Social Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Issues"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="U.S. Congress"></category><category term="U.S. House of Representatives"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="Barack Obama"></category><category term="U.S. Republican Party"></category><category term="Eric Cantor"></category><category term="Donna Smith"></category><category term="Andy Sullivan"></category><category term="Todd Eastham"></category></entry><entry><title>Virginia to ask top court to review health law</title><link href="http://healthcarepolicyinfo.com/virginia-top-court-review-health-law-4737824a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-02-03T08:00:31Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Top News</name></author><id>tag:healthcarepolicyinfo.com,2011-02-03:/virginia-top-court-review-health-law-4737824a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;WASHINGTON&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - &lt;a title="Virginia" href="/topic/Virginia" &gt;Virginia&lt;/a&gt; said on Thursday it would ask the &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="U.S. Supreme Court" href="/topic/U.S.+Supreme+Court" &gt;U.S. Supreme Court&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; to review the state's challenge to &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Barack Obama" href="/topic/Barack+Obama" &gt;President Barack Obama&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;'s landmark healthcare law, a rare legal request seeking to ...</summary><category term="Personal Finance"></category><category term="Constitutional Law"></category><category term="Social Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Issues"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="U.S. Senate"></category><category term="U.S. Congress"></category><category term="Virginia"></category><category term="Florida"></category><category term="U.S. Department of Justice"></category><category term="U.S. Supreme Court"></category><category term="U.S. House of Representatives"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="Barack Obama"></category><category term="Ken Cuccinelli"></category><category term="Paying for Health Care"></category><category term="Insurance"></category><category term="Health Insurance"></category><category term="Health Care Reform"></category><category term="Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act"></category></entry><entry><title>US Senate beats back Obama health law repeal bid</title><link href="http://healthcarepolicyinfo.com/senate-beats-obama-health-law-repeal-bid-4737749a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-02-03T04:30:13Z</updated><author><name>AFP Global Edition</name></author><id>tag:healthcarepolicyinfo.com,2011-02-03:/senate-beats-obama-health-law-repeal-bid-4737749a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;a title="Barack Obama" href="/topic/Barack+Obama" &gt;President Barack Obama&lt;/a&gt;'s Democratic allies in &lt;a title="U.S. Senate" href="/topic/U.S.+Senate" &gt;the US Senate&lt;/a&gt; defeated a Republican push to repeal his landmark health care overhaul, likely leaving its fate in the hands of the courts.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Lawmakers voted 47-51 along party lines to allow the repeal drive to advance -- well short of the 60 votes necessary -- as the Obama administration geared up to fight judges' rulings declarin...</summary><category term="Politics"></category><category term="Political Policy"></category><category term="Domestic Policy"></category><category term="Social Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Policy"></category><category term="U.S. Politics"></category><category term="World Politics"></category><category term="U.S. Congressional Politics"></category><category term="Health Care Issues"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="U.S. Senate"></category><category term="Harry Reid"></category><category term="Mitch McConnell"></category><category term="U.S. Congress"></category><category term="U.S. Supreme Court"></category><category term="U.S. House of Representatives"></category><category term="Barack Obama"></category><category term="U.S. Democratic Party"></category><category term="Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act"></category></entry><entry><title>US judge deals new blow to Obama health reform</title><link href="http://healthcarepolicyinfo.com/judge-deals-new-blow-obama-health-reform-4736637a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-01-31T21:30:13Z</updated><author><name>AFP American Edition</name></author><id>tag:healthcarepolicyinfo.com,2011-01-31:/judge-deals-new-blow-obama-health-reform-4736637a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt; A second &lt;a title="United States" href="/topic/United+States" &gt;US&lt;/a&gt; federal judge Monday declared &lt;a title="Barack Obama" href="/topic/Barack+Obama" &gt;President Barack Obama&lt;/a&gt;'s health care law unconstitutional, sparking a fierce new showdown with &lt;a title="U.S. Republican Party" href="/topic/U.S.+Republican+Party" &gt;Republicans&lt;/a&gt; who vow to repeal the historic reform act.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Obama administration immediately pledged to appeal and branded the ruling by a &lt;span&gt;Florida&lt;/span&gt; j...</summary><category term="Politics"></category><category term="Political Policy"></category><category term="Domestic Policy"></category><category term="Social Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Issues"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="The White House"></category><category term="Mitch McConnell"></category><category term="U.S. Congress"></category><category term="U.S. Supreme Court"></category><category term="U.S. House of Representatives"></category><category term="Barack Obama"></category><category term="Richmond (Virginia)"></category><category term="Republican National Committee"></category><category term="U.S. Republican Party"></category><category term="Stephanie Cutter"></category><category term="Reince Priebus"></category><category term="Henry E. Hudson"></category><category term="Health Care Reform"></category><category term="State of the Union Address"></category><category term="Commerce Clause"></category></entry><entry><title>House set to vote on healthcare repeal</title><link href="http://healthcarepolicyinfo.com/house-set-vote-healthcare-repeal-4729578a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-01-14T11:30:38Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Health News</name></author><id>tag:healthcarepolicyinfo.com,2011-01-14:/house-set-vote-healthcare-repeal-4729578a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;WASHINGTON&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - The &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="U.S. House of Representatives" href="/topic/U.S.+House+of+Representatives" &gt;House of Representatives&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; will resume action next week on repealing &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Barack Obama" href="/topic/Barack+Obama" &gt;President Barack Obama&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;'s landmark healthcare overhaul, a &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="U.S. Republican Party" href="/topic/U.S.+Republican+Party" &gt;H...</summary><category term="Politics"></category><category term="Political Policy"></category><category term="Domestic Policy"></category><category term="Social Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Issues"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="The White House"></category><category term="Washington, DC"></category><category term="U.S. Congress"></category><category term="U.S. House of Representatives"></category><category term="Kansas"></category><category term="Arizona"></category><category term="U.S. Congressional Budget Office"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="Barack Obama"></category><category term="U.S. Democratic Party"></category><category term="U.S. Republican Party"></category><category term="Eric Cantor"></category><category term="Brad Dayspring"></category><category term="Gabrielle Giffords"></category><category term="Health Care Reform"></category></entry><entry><title>FDA's No. 2 to return to Md. as health secretary</title><link href="http://healthcarepolicyinfo.com/fdas-2-return-md-health-secretary-4724923a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-01-04T13:30:30Z</updated><author><name>AP News</name></author><id>tag:healthcarepolicyinfo.com,2011-01-04:/fdas-2-return-md-health-secretary-4724923a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div id="subtitle"&gt;FDA's No. 2 leaving &lt;a title="Barack Obama" href="/topic/Barack+Obama" &gt;Obama administration&lt;/a&gt; to take over as &lt;a title="Maryland" href="/topic/Maryland" &gt;Maryland&lt;/a&gt;'s health secretary&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Joshua Sharfstein" href="/topic/Joshua+Sharfstein" &gt;Joshua Sharfstein&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, the &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Food and Drug Administration" href="/topic/Food+and+Drug+Administration" &gt;Food and Drug Administration&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;'s number two official, is leaving the Obama adm...</summary><category term="Politics"></category><category term="Political Policy"></category><category term="Domestic Policy"></category><category term="Social Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Policy"></category><category term="U.S. Politics"></category><category term="World Politics"></category><category term="Health Care Issues"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Washington, DC"></category><category term="U.S. Congress"></category><category term="U.S. House of Representatives"></category><category term="California"></category><category term="Food and Drug Administration"></category><category term="Baltimore"></category><category term="Maryland"></category><category term="Tylenol"></category><category term="Barack Obama"></category><category term="U.S. Republican Party"></category><category term="Martin O'Malley"></category><category term="Margaret Hamburg"></category><category term="Darrell Issa"></category><category term="Joshua Sharfstein"></category><category term="Maryland Department of Health &amp; Mental Hygiene"></category><category term="Four Loko"></category></entry><entry><title>Obama admin. hits back against health care repeal</title><link href="http://healthcarepolicyinfo.com/obama-admin-hits-health-care-repeal-4724737a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-01-04T09:00:44Z</updated><author><name>AP News</name></author><id>tag:healthcarepolicyinfo.com,2011-01-04:/obama-admin-hits-health-care-repeal-4724737a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div id="subtitle"&gt;Sebelius says &lt;a title="U.S. Republican Party" href="/topic/U.S.+Republican+Party" &gt;GOP&lt;/a&gt;'s health care repeal would take away freedoms; put insurers back in charge&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Barack Obama" href="/topic/Barack+Obama" &gt;President Barack Obama&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;'s top health care official says Republican repeal of his overhaul law would take away personal freedoms and put power back in the hands of insurance companies.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Previewing the administration's counteratta...</summary><category term="Politics"></category><category term="Political Policy"></category><category term="Domestic Policy"></category><category term="Social Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Issues"></category><category term="Barack Obama"></category><category term="U.S. Republican Party"></category><category term="Kathleen Sebelius"></category></entry><entry><title>Holder, Sebelius in Mass. for health fraud summit</title><link href="http://healthcarepolicyinfo.com/holder-sebelius-mass-health-fraud-summit-4714072a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-12-16T03:30:16Z</updated><author><name>AP News</name></author><id>tag:healthcarepolicyinfo.com,2010-12-16:/holder-sebelius-mass-health-fraud-summit-4714072a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div id="subtitle"&gt;Holder, Sebelius hold summit in &lt;a title="Boston" href="/topic/Boston" &gt;Boston&lt;/a&gt; on ways to reduce fraud in health care system&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;span&gt;U.S.&lt;/span&gt; attorney general and health secretary are convening a daylong summit in Boston to discuss ways to prevent fraud in the health care system.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Eric Holder" href="/topic/Eric+Holder" &gt;Attorney General Eric Holder&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Kathleen Sebelius" href="/topic/Kathleen+Sebelius" &gt;Heal...</summary><category term="Domestic Policy"></category><category term="Social Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Issues"></category><category term="New York City"></category><category term="Medicaid"></category><category term="Medicare"></category><category term="Los Angeles"></category><category term="Boston"></category><category term="Miami"></category><category term="University of Massachusetts Amherst"></category><category term="Barack Obama"></category><category term="Eric Holder"></category><category term="Kathleen Sebelius"></category><category term="Paying for Health Care"></category></entry><entry><title>Number of insured in Mass. rises to 98 percent</title><link href="http://healthcarepolicyinfo.com/number-insured-mass-rises-98-percent-4712261a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-12-13T14:00:21Z</updated><author><name>AP News</name></author><id>tag:healthcarepolicyinfo.com,2010-12-13:/number-insured-mass-rises-98-percent-4712261a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div id="subtitle"&gt;Number of Mass. residents with health insurance rises to 98 percent under universal care law&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;More than 98 percent of &lt;span&gt;Massachusetts&lt;/span&gt; residents now have health insurance of some kind.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A report released Monday by &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Deval Patrick" href="/topic/Deval+Patrick" &gt;Gov. Deval Patrick&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;'s administration found that 98.1 percent of state residents were covered during a survey between May and June.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;That's up from 97.3 percent cover...</summary><category term="Personal Finance"></category><category term="Politics"></category><category term="Political Policy"></category><category term="Domestic Policy"></category><category term="Social Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Issues"></category><category term="Barack Obama"></category><category term="Deval Patrick"></category><category term="Mitt Romney"></category><category term="Paying for Health Care"></category><category term="Insurance"></category><category term="Health Insurance"></category></entry><entry><title>Federal judge in Va. strikes down health care law</title><link href="http://healthcarepolicyinfo.com/federal-judge-va-strikes-health-care-law-4712026a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-12-13T09:30:18Z</updated><author><name>AP News</name></author><id>tag:healthcarepolicyinfo.com,2010-12-13:/federal-judge-va-strikes-health-care-law-4712026a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div id="subtitle"&gt;Federal judge in &lt;a title="Virginia" href="/topic/Virginia" &gt;Virginia&lt;/a&gt; declares &lt;a title="Barack Obama" href="/topic/Barack+Obama" &gt;Obama administration&lt;/a&gt;'s health care law unconstitutional&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;A federal judge in Virginia has declared the Obama administration's health care reform law unconstitutional.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Henry Hudson (Judge)" href="/topic/Henry+Hudson+(Judge)" &gt;U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; is the first judge to rule against the l...</summary><category term="Trials"></category><category term="Civil Trials"></category><category term="Politics"></category><category term="Political Policy"></category><category term="Domestic Policy"></category><category term="Social Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Policy"></category><category term="U.S. Politics"></category><category term="World Politics"></category><category term="Health Care Issues"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Virginia"></category><category term="U.S. Department of Justice"></category><category term="U.S. Supreme Court"></category><category term="Barack Obama"></category><category term="Ken Cuccinelli"></category><category term="Henry E. Hudson"></category></entry><entry><title>AP NewsAlert</title><link href="http://healthcarepolicyinfo.com/ap-newsalert-4712024a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-12-13T09:30:14Z</updated><author><name>AP News</name></author><id>tag:healthcarepolicyinfo.com,2010-12-13:/ap-newsalert-4712024a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div id="subtitle"&gt;Federal judge in &lt;a title="Virginia" href="/topic/Virginia" &gt;Virginia&lt;/a&gt; declares &lt;a title="Barack Obama" href="/topic/Barack+Obama" &gt;Obama administration&lt;/a&gt;'s health care law unconstitutional&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Federal judge in Virginia declares Obama administration's health care law unconstitutional.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;88474022&amp;bid=informcom" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div id="copyright"&gt;&lt;div&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Copyright 2010&amp;#160; &lt;a href="http://www.ap.org"&gt;AP News&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;...</summary><category term="Politics"></category><category term="Political Policy"></category><category term="Domestic Policy"></category><category term="Social Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Policy"></category><category term="U.S. Politics"></category><category term="World Politics"></category><category term="Health Care Issues"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Virginia"></category><category term="Barack Obama"></category></entry><entry><title>Mr. Sandoval goes to Washington</title><link href="http://healthcarepolicyinfo.com/sandoval-washington-4710208a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-12-10T02:32:26Z</updated><author><name>Las Vegas Sun</name></author><id>tag:healthcarepolicyinfo.com,2010-12-10:/sandoval-washington-4710208a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Gov.-elect &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Brian Sandoval" href="/topic/Brian+Sandoval" &gt;Brian Sandoval&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, making good on a transparency pledge, released partial transcripts of some of his &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Washington, DC" href="/topic/Washington%2c+DC" &gt;Washington, D.C.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, meetings during a three-day sojourn in the capital:President &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Barack Obama" href="/topic/Barack+Obama" &gt;Barack&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; 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