Department of Health and Human Services

Why the Federal Government Broke Vaccine Law for 30 Years

The federal government has been breaking its own vaccine laws for 30 years as the Department of Health and Human Services was supposed to report every two years to the Congress on the ongoing efforts to improve vaccine safety beginning in 1988, but no reports were ever made.  The law has been ignored because following it admits that vaccines cause harm. And the CDC buys and sells $4 billion in vaccines each year. [...]

Negligence, Underfunding Destroying Federal Healthcare Plan For Native Americans

Liz DeRouen, 49, left, gets her blood pressure checked by medical assistant Jacklyn Stra, right, at the Sonoma County Indian Health Project in Santa Rosa, Calif. (AP/Eric Risberg)
MINNEAPOLIS — The Indian Health Service (IHS), the federal service legally responsible for providing medical care to approximately 2.2. million tribal members is under scrutiny for failing to meet minimum national standards for medical facilities and repeatedly endangering patients by turning away the gravely ill and causing unnecessary deaths.

Trump’s Health Secretary Bought Drug Stocks, Then Pushed Pharma’s Agenda In Australia.

Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price speaks outside the White House. (AP/Andrew Harnik)
In the spring before the 2016 presidential election, the Obama administration’s 12-nation trade agreement known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP, was still alive. Negotiators worked on details as Congress considered whether to ratify the pact.

Trump Taps Obamacare Critic To Lead Department Of Health

Republicans hope that as Trump’s choice to run the Department of Health and Human Services, Tom Price, R-Ga, will dismantle President Barack Obama’s signature health care law. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
US President-elect Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that he would nominate Georgia Congressman Tom Price as head of the Department of Health and Human Services. The orthopedic surgeon is a critic of the Affordable Care Act, more commonly referred to as “Obamacare.”

American Defense Contractors now Health Care Providers

“Defense Contractor” is no longer a valid term for US weapons makers.
References to the “military industrial complex” are agonizingly silly particularly since the man who coined the term — President Dwight Eisenhower — was as ruthless as his CIA director John Foster Dulles. According to the Miller Center at the University of Virginia, defense spending never fell below 50 percent of the US budget during Eisenhower’s presidency. In fact, he increased spending on nuclear weapons. And it gets worse: