position:health secretary

Trump turns to conservative tacticians to run HHS and Medicare, Medicaid - The Washington Post
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/trump-turns-to-conservative-tacticians-to-run-hhs-and-entitlement-programs/2016/11/29/d0af2aec-b656-11e6-a677-b608fbb3aaf6_story.html

President-elect Donald Trump’s choices for health secretary and administrator of the government’s largest health insurance programs have for years pursued a sharply conservative agenda that includes redefining Medicare, placing “personal responsibility” requirements on low-income recipients of Medicaid, and dismantling the Affordable Care Act.

If adopted, this agenda could dramatically alter access to insurance and medical services for more than 100 million Americans covered through the two entitlement programs and the ACA.

… et c’est le WaPo qui le dit…

AUB : Reflections on its Present and Future
►http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/aub-reflections-its-present-and-future

The administration decided to honor Shalala, whose eventful record as Clinton’s Health Secretary is available to anyone with access to the internet - from her imposing inhumane sanctions on the Iraqi people to her frantic defense of Israel and its universities, from which she has received three honorary degrees.

En plus de cette protestation pour contrer les tentatives de normalisation par la direction de l’Université américaine de Beyrouth, l’article dénonce des évolutions récentes de l’université.

Evaluating medical treatments: Evidence, shmevidence | The Economist
►http://www.economist.com/node/21556928

Mr Obama’s health law stipulates that insurers must cover the treatments the task-force recommends.

Nevertheless, the power of both bodies is purposely dulled. A negative recommendation from the task-force does not mean that coverage will stop. PCORI is explicitly barred from studying cost-effectiveness. The health secretary may not use PCORI’s findings to deny coverage under Medicare, the federal health programme for the old. When the institute announced its agenda in May, it was vague in the extreme.

Even neutered bodies, however, can provoke outrage. The task-force unleashed a torrent of fury in 2009, when it recommended against mammograms for women in their 40s. Last month the task force advised against routine prostate-specific antigen (PSA) tests to screen for prostate cancer. The panel explained that for every life that the tests save, the treatment inspired by those tests would cause one man to develop a serious blood clot, two to have heart attacks and at least 30 to become impotent or incontinent. This reasoning did not calm critics.

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