GAO: White House Violated Law on Medicare
43024
The Bush administration violated the law by allowing private insurers to limit choices of some patients in a small trial program of managed health care under Medicare, congressional investigators said.
143593
President Bush's most recent surgeon general accused the administration Tuesday of muzzling him for political reasons on hot-button health issues such as emergency contraception and abstinence-only education.
211706
President Bush plans to veto a defense spending bill that Congress passed this month, the White House said Friday.
241276
The White House chief of staff faced possible contempt charges after a congressional panel on Thursday ruled as invalid President George W. Bush's bid to limit the probe of the firing of federal prosecutors.
263741
U.S. President George W. Bush on Wednesday vetoed a bill expanding a popular children's health care program for the second time, angering Democrats who are locked in a fight with the administration over the budget and spending.
200121
WASHINGTON Sept. 9, 2004 - The White House released memos Wednesday night saying that George W. Bush was suspended from flying fighter jets for failing to meet standards of the Texas Air National Guard.
636395
The Bush administration sometimes fails to follow all provisions of laws after President Bush attaches "signing statements" meant to interpret or restrict the legislation, congressional examiners say.
232437
WASHINGTON - A day before the first presidential debate, the government's health policy watchdog raised concerns that early mailings to seniors about the new Medicare prescription discount cards championed by President Bush were confusing or inadequate.   "We found that these beneficiaries received very little mail from drug card sponsors that would enable them to make an informed choice among cards," the Health and Human Services Department inspector general wrote in the Sept...
113122
A House of Representatives panel on Thursday rejected along party lines a Democratic bid to force the Bush administration to turn over records about the estimated cost of last year&#39;s Medicare drug bill.
418364
President Bush again called Democrats "irresponsible" on Saturday for pushing an expansion he opposes to a children's health insurance program.
488773
A major obstacle to the success of the new Medicare law has emerged in recent weeks: private insurers have told the Bush administration that they will not expand their role
215637
Some Medicare beneficiaries had received erroneous refunds of premiums paid for prescription drug coverage.
645361
DOWNINGTOWN, Pa.  - President Bush on Thursday  blamed the nation's health care woes on a "litigation culture"  protected by Democratic rival John Kerry, and accused him of  planning to give government sweeping powers to decide "who gets  the coverage and how much care you get."
728443
The state's highest court said Gov. Jeb Bush violated a "cornerstone of American democracy" when he ordered doctors to resume tube-feeding a brain-damaged woman.
594715
President Bush threatened on Friday  to veto any bill seen as weakening a new drug benefit for  Medicare patients, after cost projections far exceeding earlier  White House estimates led lawmakers to urge changes.
229920
The U.S. Justice Department is  investigating the medical supply industry over concerns that  some health care providers bilked government programs including  Medicare, The New York Times reported on Saturday.
226484
President Bush's most recent surgeon general accused the administration Tuesday of muzzling him for political reasons