The*"broccoli goes to the Supreme Court" mashup—of justices and lawyers saying the word broccoli eight times—from today's Brian Lehrer*show is fairly entertaining, but it's also a good starting point for understanding what's happening in this week's healthcare hearings. In what many believe was...
The Boston Globe reports that children with mental illnesses are "increasingly being turned away from some Massachusetts hospitals' psychiatric wards, a problem the hospital industry acknowledges and blames on insufficient insurance payments to cover treatment of such sick children. ... Dr...
The following summarizes selected women's health related videos. Kagan Discusses Abortion Rights: Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) became the first lawmaker to raise the issue of abortion rights during Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan's Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing this week...
In the first day of her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan said she would be a "modest" justice and show proper deference to Congress and the presidency, the New York Times reports. Kagan pledged to consider each case with "even-handedness and...
Critics and supporters of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan are intensifying efforts to focus public attention on her suitability for the court, Roll Call reports. The Senate Judiciary Committee begins Kagan's confirmation hearings on Monday. The debate over the nominee "has been a bit of a...
The New York Times on Dr. Donald Berwick, the president's nominee to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS): "Hospital executives who have worked with Dr. Berwick describe him as a visionary, inspiring leader. But a battle has erupted over his nomination, suggesting that Dr...
On Monday, two groups that support abortion rights released reports suggesting that Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan's writings make it difficult to predict how she might rule on those issues, CQ Today reports. Kagan's confirmation hearings begin Monday (Stern, CQ Today, 6/21). One report, by...
The New York Times on Dr. Donald Berwick, the president's nominee to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS): "Hospital executives who have worked with Dr. Berwick describe him as a visionary, inspiring leader. But a battle has erupted over his nomination, suggesting that Dr...
On Monday, two groups that support abortion rights released reports suggesting that Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan's writings make it difficult to predict how she might rule on those issues, CQ Today reports. Kagan's confirmation hearings begin Monday (Stern, CQ Today, 6/21). One report, by...
The New York Times on Dr. Donald Berwick, the president's nominee to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS): "Hospital executives who have worked with Dr. Berwick describe him as a visionary, inspiring leader. But a battle has erupted over his nomination, suggesting that Dr...
On Monday, two groups that support abortion rights released reports suggesting that Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan's writings make it difficult to predict how she might rule on those issues, CQ Today reports. Kagan's confirmation hearings begin Monday (Stern, CQ Today, 6/21). One report, by...
The New York Times on Dr. Donald Berwick, the president's nominee to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS): "Hospital executives who have worked with Dr. Berwick describe him as a visionary, inspiring leader. But a battle has erupted over his nomination, suggesting that Dr...
On Monday, two groups that support abortion rights released reports suggesting that Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan's writings make it difficult to predict how she might rule on those issues, CQ Today reports. Kagan's confirmation hearings begin Monday (Stern, CQ Today, 6/21). One report, by...
The New York Times on Dr. Donald Berwick, the president's nominee to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS): "Hospital executives who have worked with Dr. Berwick describe him as a visionary, inspiring leader. But a battle has erupted over his nomination, suggesting that Dr...
On Monday, two groups that support abortion rights released reports suggesting that Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan's writings make it difficult to predict how she might rule on those issues, CQ Today reports. Kagan's confirmation hearings begin Monday (Stern, CQ Today, 6/21). One report, by...
On Friday, the William J. Clinton Presidential Library is expected to release a new batch of about 80,000 pages of e-mails related to Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan's service as a domestic policy adviser and White House counsel to President Clinton, the AP/Atlanta Journal-Constitution...