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President Barack Obama's first proposed budget for the Department of Veterans Affairs expands eligibility for healthcare to an additional 500,000 veterans over the next five years.
The CEO of Tufts Health Plan, who is the grandson of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and a member of President Obama’s transition team, is urging universal healthcare.
The U.S. House of Representatives voted this week to approve a fiscal year 2009 omnibus spending package for the Department of Health and Human Services and other federal agencies.
President Barack Obama asked Congress for $76.8 billion for the Department of Health and Human Services Thursday in a fiscal year 2010 federal budget outline.
Huge inefficiencies in the U.S. healthcare system are harming the nation's ability to expand access to care, according to a new analysis of Medicare spending by researchers of the Dartmouth Atlas Project in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The board of directors of the Boston-based Partners Healthcare system has named Brigham and Women’s Hospital President Gary L. Gottlieb, MD, as its next president and CEO.
Witnesses at separate hearings held Wednesday by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee and the Senate Finance Committee said healthcare reform is necessary and can't be achieved without spending money up front. The experts also recommended providing broader risk pools and establishing comparative effectiveness.
Nemours, one of the nation’s top pediatric health systems, has broken ground on a new children’s hospital in central Florida.
President Obama intends to create $634 billion reserve fund dedicated to healthcare, paid for in part by further tax increases on wealthy Americans.
In December 2008, six employees of Oregon State Hospital graduated from Portland Community College with nursing degrees, two more are currently in a nursing program at Clackamas Community College, and six employees will begin the program at Portland Community College in the spring.