June 16, 2009
With Republicans fighting the idea of a government-run health insurance plan, Obama administration officials said that they are open to a compromise: a cooperative program that would expand coverage with taxpayer money but without direct governmental control. Congress began work …
March 23, 2009
Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius is President Barack Obama’s choice for secretary of health and human services. Sebelius, 60, is seen as a solid choice to head HHS because as a governor responsible for the Medicaid program in Kansas, she faced …
March 2, 2009
Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius is President Barack Obama’s choice for secretary of health and human services, a White House source said Saturday. The source, who was not authorized to speak on the record, said Obama will formally announce the nomination …
October 6, 2008
Claims Managers ‘Don’t Like Ike’ as Losses from the Hurricane Pile Up on Top of Gustav’s Whatever goes around comes around, and in an election year it was almost inevitable that somebody would reintroduce legislation to “close the tax loophole” …
September 25, 2008
Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden said Republican John McCain protected offshore tax shelters worth billions of dollars to U.S. insurance giants. In a trip to the battleground state 0f Virginia this week, Biden said McCain promised to oppose any …