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SOURCE: www.help.senate.gov Tuesday, January 18, 2011Justine Sessions (202)-224-3254 WASHINGTON – Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee Chairman Tom Harkin (D-IA) released the following statement after the Department of Health and Human Services released a new report showing that, without [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.va.gov WASHINGTON – Certain combat Veterans who were discharged from active duty service before Jan. 28, 2003 have until Jan. 27, 2011 to take advantage of their enhanced health care enrollment opportunity through the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.hhs.gov Without Affordable Care Act protections, in 2014, 1 in 2 non-elderly Americans could be denied coverage or charged more due to a pre-existing condition Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today released a new analysis showing that, [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.defense.gov The Department of Defense announced today its introduction of the premium-based Tricare Young Adult Program (TYAP) which extends medical coverage to eligible military family members to the age of 26.  Expected to be in place later this spring, [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.www.nteu.org Washington, D.C.—The nation’s largest independent federal union joined a coalition of 15 organizations in a letter to President Obama calling on the White House to reject proposals that would cut federal civilian retirement and health benefits, freeze federal [...] Read More