By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
An international pro-life group has discovered that 11 of the 15 members of the Committee on Preventive Services for Woman of the Institute of Medicine (IOM), the group that advised the Department of Health and Human Services HHS to force all private health insurers to pay for FDA-approved contraception, are either tied to major pro-abortion groups or to politicians who support that ideology.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In what many consider to be a risky political move, lawyers for the Obama Administration have officially petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to review a case challenging the constitutionality of portions of the president’s health care reform law, which means a decision could come in the middle of the 2012 presidential election.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A proposed new rule by Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) which would give the government unfettered access to health records on every single citizen is being called as an excessive power grab that will result in giving the government “undue power over life-and-death medical decisions.”
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A decision by the Obama administration not to seek a full U.S. Appeals Court review of the constitutionality of the president’s signature health care reform law has cleared the way for the Supreme Court to take up the case.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Friday’s decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit to strike down the core provision in President Obama’s signature health care law has many believing the case may head to the Supreme Court as early as this fall.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The battle over a controversial new ObamaCare rule requiring all employers to cover birth control is not quite over as both sides in the debate take advantage of a 60 day comment period that could result in the exemptions either being broadened or discarded altogether.
by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is expected to announce today its decision to require all health insurance plans to cover birth control and sterilization for women, with little more than what are some are calling a toothless exemption for religious institutions.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A hearing was held yesterday in which Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius was brought before the House Budget Committee where she was grilled on the controversial Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) – also known as the death panel – that was created as a part of ObamaCare.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Doctors across the nation are reacting with concern over a new program to be launched by the Obama Administration which will involve a team of “mystery shoppers” who will pose as patients and call doctor’s offices for appointments to see how difficult it is for people to get care.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A federal appeals court panel consisting of three Democratically appointed judges heard arguments yesterday for and against ObamaCare, with court watchers saying the judges all appeared to favor the government’s position.
