Topic - Department Of Health And Human Services

• HAGELIN: Other health issues lost in birth control debate

  The past few weeks have been alive with talk about the urgency of "women's health."

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  RICHARDS and ROBISON: Currency of the Founders

  Reflecting on the 44 presidents who have served these United States and the Founding Fathers who had the vision to create our country, questions arise: Is America what the Founders envisioned it to be? If they were here now, what would the Founders do? What would they think? One thing seems clear: Current political debates could stand to be seasoned with their wisdom.

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  Education Department deploys 'mystery shoppers' to check for fraud

  The Department of Education has dispatched "mystery shoppers" posing as prospective students to various colleges and universities across the country — an anti-fraud initiative that came months after another agency dumped a similar plan amid criticism that it amounted to spying.

• LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Bishops' ire over contraception welcome

  The Obama administration's decision to mandate contraceptive coverage, including abortifacients and sterilization, in health insurance plans offered by religious institutions such as colleges and hospitals has awakened the wrath of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops ("Contraception compromising comes to end," Page 1, Monday).

• Obama plan cuts preventive, long-term health care funds

  Facing budgetary pressures in his annual spending plan, President Obama has proposed cutting resources from a key part of his health care law — a preventive care program designed for Americans to maintain good health.

• LETTER TO THE EDITOR: On contraception, keep eye on the ball

  We've taken our eye off the ball in the uproar over federally mandated contraception coverage ( "Contraception battle: not a war on religion, but a war on women," Web, Friday).

• LETTER TO THE EDITOR: A Titanic Congress

  The debates and the responses of the Republican presidential candidates to the challenges that we face as a nation thus far have not inspired trust or confidence. The priorities of the debate moderators have guided the questioning, which has intentionally avoided addressing the proverbial elephant in the room.

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  KNIGHT: Keeping marriage real

  Maryland's Civil Marriage Protection Act is profoundly misnamed. In fact, it should more accurately be called the Attack on Religious Freedom Enabling Act.

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  HHS mandate on birth control cheered, jeered

  Pro-choice leaders and organizations applauded the Obama administration's Friday decision to require almost all employers to provide free birth control in their health insurance, but Catholic leaders quickly vowed to resist the rule.

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  HANSAN: Enviros to babies: We hope you're born dumb

  Thanks to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), everyone will breathe a little easier in the new year, apparently, as the agency begins enforcing tougher emission standards on coal-fired power plants. It was a cause celebre for the Sierra Club and its inside-the-Beltway campaign "Beyond Coal," which exposed Washingtonians to endless ads of coughing babies and tuna-fish sandwiches.

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  Health insurer pushes back against order to justify raising rates

  As the Obama administration told an Illinois-based insurer that it must publicly justify large premium increases in five states, officials admitted Thursday that the first company they tagged under new rate-review rules increased their rates anyway.

• HHS offers aid over Guatemalan STD lawsuit

  The Department of Health and Human Services on Tuesday announced $1.8 million in aid to Guatemalan health authorities to fight sexual disease and improve research with human subjects.

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  KENT: Chronicling coming Obamacare crash

  In 2011, instead of being heralded for its popularity, President Obama's expensive and tyrannical health care law faced its unraveling, month by month.

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  HHS stays flexible in new guideline for states setting benefits

  Announcing a preliminary guideline on the benefits that insurers must offer under the new health care law, the Obama administration surprised some health care advocates Friday by remaining vague on details, choosing instead to let states largely set their own benchmarks.

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  Administration gives states leeway on health rules

  Announcing a preliminary guideline on the benefits insurers must offer under the new health care law, the Obama administration surprised some health care advocates on Friday by remaining vague on details, choosing instead to let states largely set their own benchmarks.

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