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Colorado nets $22 million in federal health care grants

By | 05.01.12 | 11:38 am

Today Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced $21,928,181 in grants awarded to community health centers in Colorado. The grants were funded by the Affordable Care Act.

Sebelius highlights progress made under Affordable Care Act

By | 03.20.12 | 12:22 pm

U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius in Miami today said the health care reform law, signed two years ago this week, has led to tremendous strides in women’s access to health care.

Coloradans starting to see benefit of Health Care Reform

By | 02.15.12 | 1:16 pm

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced today that the Affordable Care Act provided approximately 973,000 Colorado residents with at least one new free preventive service in 2011 through their private health insurance plans.

Obama taken to the woodshed over Plan B decision

By | 12.09.11 | 5:48 am

Women’s health advocates all over the country were stunned yesterday when Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius reversed an FDA request to expand access to over-the-counter emergency contraception for teenagers under the age of 17. In press releases denouncing the decision, a common theme has emerged: President Obama has followed in the footsteps of his predecessor, George W. Bush, on the heated issue of emergency contraception.

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Reproductive rights groups petitioning for elimination of birth control co-pays

By | 07.25.11 | 8:21 am

Reproductive justice groups all over the country — including in Miami — are petitioning the feds to eliminate co-pays for birth control through the Affordable Care Act.

DeGette lauds ruling lifting ban on stem-cell-research funding

By | 04.29.11 | 3:30 pm

Colorado U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette, a leading advocate for women’s health and head of the Pro-Choice Congressional Caucus, celebrated on Friday a ruling lifting the ban on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.

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Fact-checking healthcare myths on the anniversary of Obamacare

By | 03.26.11 | 5:16 am

During this, the anniversary week of the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, supporters and opponents offered their love or hate for the law; though largely hate got the most press.

Lamborn mobilizes conservatives on HHS nominee Sebelius fight, bombs out

By | 04.28.09 | 4:59 pm

The dean of Colorado’s Republican congressional delegation flexed his political muscle today with a strongly worded letter to President Barack Obama urging him to reject his own HHS secretary nominee Kathleen Sebelius.

My crystal ball on Obama’s VP pick

By | 08.22.08 | 11:50 am

Based not at all on politics nor inside information nor gut instinct, just a simple examination of a few tea leaves, here’s my crystal ball on Obama’s pick for VP.