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...exempt states from this requirement and encourage them to operate under alternative performance measures. For example, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has said that to bypass federal workfare requirements, a state would have to "move at least 20...
...the uncertainty over how the law will be carried out. A steadying force within the administration is likely to be HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. The former Kansas governor has said she wants to stay until the law is fully enacted. Governors...
...reimbursements. The 2,700-page law has nearly 2,000 of these "the secretary shall" statements.If I may, as a former HHS secretary, offer a suggestion to the current secretary, it would be this: Use these expanded discretionary powers to grant...
...program. It received two performance bonuses from the federal Department of Health and Human Services last year. HHS Secretary Donna Shalala told me, ''Illinois is the first state with a very big city that has done very well.'' But for...
...problems by legislation, rather than tossing out the bill entirely," Jeffords said. He said he would ask the incoming HHS secretary to review Shalala's decision, and would reintroduce the bill in the next Congress if the decision was not overturned...
WASHINGTON - The Senate on Wednesday unanimously confirmed Tommy Thompson to lead the Department of Health and Human Services amid praise for his efforts at overhauling the welfare system.
...reporting that donations from people who died rose by less than 3 percent last year. The campaign is the brainchild of HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson, who arrived at his post with a hard-line reputation on the issue of how to distribute donated organs...
...protection for every American. But there are no plans to resume the routine vaccinations of Americans that ended in 1972, HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson said. That's because the vaccine can be administered four days after exposure to smallpox and still...
...volunteered few details. "There are legal things that still need to be finalized," said HHS spokesman Bill Hall. HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson hopes to settle the deal before next week, Hall said. "Until then, our hands are tied." A global...
...nation's supply at a time of mounting anxiety over a biological attack. "This is just a huge insurance policy," said HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson. By year's end, America will have at least 286 million doses of vaccine, he said.. Aides said...