Regulatory

• Plain Truths about Dental and Vision Within Health Care Reform

  By Sponsor: Ameritas  |  May 17, 2013

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  Ousted IRS chief regrets treatment of tea party

  By Alan Fram, Stephen Ohlemacher  |  May 17, 2013

  A top House Republican charges that the IRS's improper use of tougher scrutiny of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status seems part of a broader pattern of intimidation and cover-ups by the Obama administration.

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  Obama picks budget official to run IRS

  By Stephen Ohlemacher  |  May 17, 2013

  President Barack Obama picked a senior White House budget official to become the acting head of the Internal Revenue Service on Thursday, the same day another top official announced plans to leave the agency amid the controversy over agents targeting tea party groups.

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  Tea party tax returns show activism on a budget

  By Stephen Braun  |  May 17, 2013

  Dozens of tea party groups and other conservative organizations of the kind subjected to improper scrutiny by the Internal Revenue Service operated with small budgets and rarely displayed overt partisan activities, according to an Associated Press review of public tax filings by 93 such activist groups. A few groups built...

• White House responds to repeal vote with new PPACA campaign

  By Kathryn Mayer  |  May 16, 2013

  The White House on Thursday launched a new campaign promoting PPACA and urging Americans to join supporters.

• HHS tightens child care health, safety standards

  By Kathryn Mayer  |  May 16, 2013

  The Department of Health and Human Services announced Thursday it will, for the first time, impose tough national health and safety standards for all child care facilities that accept government subsidies.

• IRS chief’s ouster isn’t ending investigations

  By Stephen Ohlemacher  |  May 16, 2013

  Don't look for the outcry over the Internal Revenue Service's improper targeting of tea party groups to subside with the ouster of the agency's acting commissioner.

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  Obama fires IRS commissioner

  By Stephen Ohlemacher  |  May 16, 2013

  President Obama ousted the acting commissioner of the IRS late Wednesday amid an outcry over the improper targeting of tea party groups.

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  Senate confirms former nurse to run Medicare

  By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar  |  May 15, 2013

  The Senate has confirmed a former nurse to run Medicare and other government health insurance programs with a combined budget surpassing the Pentagon's.

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  Health reforms penalize some Indians

  By Garance Burke  |  May 15, 2013

  Many Native Americans will have to buy their own health insurance or pay a $695 fine unless they can prove they are "Indian enough" to claim one of the few exemptions allowed under the PPACA.