Category: HHS

HHS Becomes Latest Federal Agency to Mandate COVID-19 Vaccines for Workers

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Thursday said that it will require all of its frontline health care workers to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, according to agency Secretary Xavier Becerra. HHS is now the third federal agency to require its employees to receive the vaccine, joining the Department of Veterans Affairs and…


Biden Health Secretary: ‘Absolutely the Government’s Business’ To Know Who Gets Vaccinated

Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra argued that the federal government is entitled to know who has been vaccinated against COVID-19, responding to concerns over a recently announced White House plan to send teams door-to-door. “Perhaps we should point out that the federal government has had to spend trillions of dollars to try…


Health Secretary Becerra: ‘Absolutely the Government’s Business’ to Know Who Gets Vaccinated

Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra argued that the federal government is entitled to know who has been vaccinated against COVID-19, responding to concerns over a recently announced White House plan to send teams door-to-door. “Perhaps we should point out that the federal government has had to spend trillions of dollars to try…


Biden Reversing HHS Gender Identity Policy

The Biden administration announced it is overturning a Trump-era Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) rule that excluded gender identity from sex discrimination protections in the Obamacare statute. The rule dealt with Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, which made it unlawful to discriminate on the basis of “race, color, national origin, sex, age, or…


Biden Administration Abruptly Closes Texas Migrant Facility Over Alleged ‘Unbearable’ Conditions

Last Saturday, the Biden administration abruptly closed a temporary facility housing nearly 500 unaccompanied illegal immigrant girls in Houston, Texas, a move allegedly due to the “unbearable” conditions of the facility. The facility is an emergency shelter of the National Association of Christian Churches (NACC), a nonprofit organization focused on disaster services. It’s actually in…


California Military Base Could Be Used to House Unaccompanied Children: Pentagon

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) asked the Department of Defense (DOD) to house more unaccompanied children who arrived at the U.S.-Mexico border in the midst of an influx in illegal immigration, said a spokesperson for the Pentagon. “We have received a request for assistance from HHS for the potential use of Camp…


Pentagon Reviewing HHS Request for Another Military Base to House Unaccompanied Children

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) asked the Department of Defense (DOD) to house more unaccompanied children who arrived at the U.S.-Mexico border in the midst of an influx in illegal immigration, said a spokesperson for the Pentagon. “We have received a request for assistance from HHS for the potential use of Camp…


Biden Administration Suspends Trump Executive Order to Lower Insulin, Epinephrine Prices

President Joe Biden’s Health and Human Services (HHS) froze the former Trump administration’s drug rule that allows community health centers to pass on all their insulin and epinephrine savings to patients. According to a Federal Register (pdf) post, “this action temporarily delays for 60 days from the date of the memorandum the effective date of the…


Biden Administration Suspends Trump Order to Lower Insulin, Epinephrine Prices

The Biden administration has paused a rule put in place by former President Donald Trump that would allow community health centers to pass on all their insulin and epinephrine savings to patients. According to a Federal Register (pdf) post, “this action temporarily delays for 60 days from the date of the memorandum the effective date…


Biden’s HHS Nominee Says US ‘In a Nosedive’ on COVID-19

Xavier Becerra, President Joe Biden’s nominee for the head of Health and Human Services (HHS), said Sunday that the United States is seeing an uncontrolled spread of COVID-19, the illness caused by the CCP virus. “The plane in a nosedive. And we’ve got to pull it up,” Becerra told CNN. “And you’re not going to do…