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AIDS Funding Binds Longevity of Millions to U.S.

admin — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500

President Bush plans to sign a bill next week that commits the United States to spending about $40 billion over the next five years to fight AIDS overseas, a major expansion of what many consider his most successful foreign policy initiative.

Congress Easily Overrides Medicare Veto

admin — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500

President Bush sought to block a bill yesterday aimed at forestalling an 11 percent cut in payments to doctors taking care of Medicare patients, but Congress quickly overrode his veto.

Congress Overrides Bush Veto of Medicare Bill

admin — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:12:18 -0500

WASHINGTON -- The ink was barely dry on President Bush's veto of the bill that blocked a scheduled 10.6% cut in Medicare payments to physicians when the House of Representatives voted 383-41 to override it. The Senate followed suit soon after, by a vote of 70-26.

Ex-Bush health chief's firm wins Sept. 11 work

admin — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 20:25:08 -0500

WASHINGTON -- As President Bush's health chief, Tommy Thompson trumpeted millions of taxpayer dollars to help workers sickened by the Sept. 11 attacks at the World Trade Center, even amid complaints that his agency wasn't doing enough.

People Need Protection From Unreliable Genetic Tests

admin — Tue, 27 May 2008 13:30:09 -0500

After a decade of debate, President Bush last week signed into law the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA). It is now illegal for health insurers to raise premiums or deny coverage based on genetic information, and employees cannot be hired or fired based on their genetic information.

How Green Is John McCain?

admin — Mon, 12 May 2008 20:30:00 -0500

Analysis: The presumptive GOP nominee makes his environmental pitch. It's an advance over President Bush, but that still doesn't make him the green candidate

African AIDS Crisis Outlives $15 Billion Bush Initiative

admin — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 23:00:00 -0600

JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 19 -- Five years after President Bush vowed to "turn the tide against AIDS" in Africa, he is traveling across a continent where the government's $15 billion investment has extended the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and eased the sense of certain doom once experienced...

HHS Marks Expansion of 1200th Health Center, Meeting Key Bush Go...

admin — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 12:00:00 -0600

Many of the country's neediest communities now have greater access to medical treatment, HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt said today in marking fulfillment of President Bush's 2001 pledge to open or expand 1,200 community health centers.