Kathleen Sebelius

Hospital rates vary significantly, Medicare data show

2013-05-09 09:55:00

Johns Hopkins Hospital charged $13,667 on average to treat one admission of a Medicare patient with diabetes in 2011, while a couple of miles away Mercy Medical Center billed an average of $8,425. The University of Maryland Medical Center charged $9,045...

Common sense on Plan B

2013-04-09 11:31:00

Last week, a federal district judge in New York ruled that girls younger than 17 should be allowed to purchase the Plan B contraceptive pill over the counter. Unlike the Obama administration, Judge Edward Korman got this one right. The 2011 decision by...

Health reform's changes stir worries as they take shape in Md.

2013-04-03 14:53:48

State lawmakers put finishing touches last week on plans to apply federal health care reforms in Maryland come Jan. 1. But who becomes newly insured — and at what cost —still worries stakeholders as the state speeds toward becoming one of...

The Obamacare lies keep on coming

2013-03-27 06:00:00

What a wonderful, if hypocritical and misleading, opinion by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, who continues to be as truthful and upfront with the American people as her boss is about Benghazi ("Health care reform is cutting costs,...

U.S. cuts could lead to 'brain drain' in medicine

2013-02-23 13:45:15

Scientists at the nation's leading research institutions are warning that continued uncertainty over federal funding could lead to a brain drain that will undermine the country's global status in medicine. With funding at the National Institutes of...

The what-if prescription

2012-11-26 11:41:00

Leave it to some thoughtful physicians to put good medicine ahead of good politics. Last year, the Obama administration wrongly chose to limit access of teens to the emergency contraceptive pill known as Plan B. This week, pediatricians are urging their...

Towson family featured in health care campaign find 'relief' in Supreme Court ruling

2012-06-28 20:24:00

The Supreme Court's ruling on President Barack Obama's health care initiative was a cause for great anticipation for Alicia Steinberg. In the parking lot of Brown Memorial Woodbrook Church on Thursday, the West Towson resident was waiting until the...

1 in 80 Maryland children diagnosed with autism, CDC says

2012-03-29 15:51:25

One in 88 American children has an autism spectrum disorder, according to a new estimate from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The rate is 23 percent higher than one the agency released three years ago. Federal officials said some...

Women need to speak up about birth control

2012-02-16 04:09:00

Where are the women? In the extreme and ill-tempered debate over the availability of contraceptives for women, we have heard from the president, the bishops of the Roman Catholic Church, the Republican presidential candidates, members if Congress and...

Jonah Goldberg: Searching for a surrogate

2012-06-11 04:00:00

Watching Bill Clinton act as Barack Obama's "No. 1 surrogate," in the words of National Public Radio, is as exquisitely painful as watching a runaway monkey with a paintball gun at a museum. Most of the pundits have focused on Mr. Clinton's motivations...

Obama's birth-control compromise wins some support

2012-02-10 17:21:00

– For days President Obama had been hammered by critics — including Cardinal-designate Edwin F. O'Brien of the Archdiocese of Baltimore — over a regulation in the healthcare law that required religiously affiliated hospitals, charities...

CDC to launch anti-smoking campaign

2012-03-19 12:57:00

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention launched an ad campaign to show the damage done from smoking to smokers and their families. The ads began March 19 on television, radio, online and billboards, as well as in theaters, magazines and...

Gov. Pat Quinn, left, Lee Francis, President and CEO of Erie Family Health Center, and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, right, announce Illinois' plan to be a partner in a health insurance exchange.

2013-02-13 00:00:00

President Obama with U.S. Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius

2012-03-14 13:10:58

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius testifies during a hearing on Capitol Hill.

2012-03-06 00:00:00