director, center for substance abuse prevention, substance abuse and mental health services administration, u.s. department of health and human services, rockville, md; jane callahan, director, national community anti-drug coalition institute, community anti-drug coalitions of america, alexandria, va; jordan burnham, mental health advocate, active minds inc., washington, dc; dr. wendy greene, assistant director of trauma and critical care and program developer, screening, brief interventions and referral to treatment program, howard university hospital, washington, dc. fran, what is the definition of behavioral health, and how do we distinguish between prevention, early intervention, and treatment within that definition? the definition for behavioral health for samhsa is we are taking the substance abuse and mental health prevention, intervention, and treatment programs, and we are encasing it within the disorder realm. so substance abuse, prevention, intervention, and treatment are exactly the same, same levels, and so is mental health. we are finding that mental health properties for prevention, especially, are very similar

absolutely want to help you improve the cities of california, and we want to help kurds schulz, the regional director of the u.s. department of health and human services, and improve the diet of california. and i would like to hand it over to him. >> thank you. i have followed the mayor and now tim again. i like that. thank you for the microphone. i want to say a couple of things this morning and try and be brief, which can be difficult. first of all, on behalf of the obama -- obama administration, i am presidential appointee and my boss is secretary kathleen sebelius. she knows that i was going to be here this morning. on behalf of the secretary of the u.s. department of health and human services, i want to congratulate the bayview community. i want to congratulate fresh & easy and san francisco, so give yourself a round of applause. [applause] you know, we hear too often the term these days food desserts. 10% of our communities and united states are considered food deserts. that means amenities like bayview, who now have ensured, working with fresh & easy, that you are a youdest no more. there is access to fresh, nutritious, and affordable food. tod

brought to you by the department of health and human services. [music] the cool thing is that i'm at the level now of the recovery movement, that i'm at the federal level with samhsa and the white house, you know what i mean, and seeing how the top, how really still today, when we say that stuff rolls down hill. so the cool thing is that thirteen years ago, when csat and dr. clark said, you know, hey we're going to do a peer-to-peer recovery community support, and then i was part of that in '97-'98, and thirteen years later where we are today. so we've come a long way from thirteen years ago of just advocating for recovery, prevention, and treatment. but i think again five years from now, we're going to come a long way, because now, everybody's on board. i mean, this year is like really turning point and historical point, because we got not only the federal, but we also have the state, i'm involved at the state level and the local level. and everybody's doing the same work right now, transformation of behavioral health leadership integration and d

resolution authorizing the san francisco department of public health to accept and expend a grant from department of health and human services, substance abuse and mental health services, and center for mental health services in the amount of $473,485 to fund the primary and behavioral health care integration for the period september 1, 2011, through august 31, 2012. supervisor chu: thank you. we have tony from the department of public health, i believe. >> good morning, chair person, supervisors. good morning on this beautiful day. i am here today to come before you with approval to accept and expand the grant for community behavior health services with integration of primary care and behavioral health. this is an exciting opportunity for us. we are fortunate to have this opportunity, given the national picture where health care is headed. we submitted this claim in 2009. we receive the actual spores, which were very high, but it was a very competitive picture at that time. we receive notification during the summer that with that the application, we could move forward with funding health care as proposed in the grant applic

department of health and human services. [music] the mission of the new start program is to provide treatment opportunities for incarcerated males in the orange county jail system. the program is designed to treat them while they are in custody and continue their treatment into the community at whatever level of care it is that they need for at least 1 year postcustody. the phoenix house provides that treatment. they provide continuing care, a group counseling. they provide fellowship. basically an all-encompassing kind of program from beginning to end, which really enables a person a really, really good shot at making it. what makes this project unique from other projects in southern california is it is an in-custody program, but there is a continuum of care once someone is released from custody, and there is a team that works with these individuals when they are in custody and then follows up outside. it also includes family members. so that is the very important piece of this. once they begin to realize there is a possibi

department of health and human services. >>> it's one of the oldest sports in the world. one of the most popular programs on tv. although what you see on tv is nothing like the real thing. >> i've played a lot of sports and nothing compares to it. >> it's real intense and you get a good workout and you just feel better just having that physical health. >> it's something i've done since i was 4 years old, my dad got me into it, and i started loving the sport. >> wrestling is a sport participa participated all across the world. in the united states we wrestle what we call, "folk style." it's participated in the youth levels from the time kids are 5 until they're done with high school and then into college. >> there are a lot of different styles of wrestling but they each have one thing in common. >> well, the object of wrestling is to pin your opponent, regardless of the style. folk-style is based more on control, so in order to score points you have to control your o pent, take him to the mat and hold him down. >> wrestlers earn points for their moves on the mat. but, if y

department of health and human services [music] so, screening and brief intervention is what we call a secondary prevention approach. so, it is a way of intercepting people who might be already engaging in risky substance abuse behavior and trying to reduce their abuse and reduce the harm that they might experience from their substance use. we decided to do our intervention in this mental health clinic. and that's something that hadn't been done before, so we decided to use this very brief screening and brief intervention tool called the assist. it is the alcohol smoking and substance involvement screening test, which was developed by the world health organization. well, we use the assist results in intervention planning quite immediately; that is part of the beauty of the assist, that it has kind of a built-in intervention that, based on the score that is deduced from the eight questions of the assist, you are kind of guided to do a validating response, a brief intervention, or an intervention with kind of a referral to treatment or a discussion about kind of getting further treatme

and make sense of life again. for information, treatment referral and most importantly help, call 1-800-662-help. brought to you by the u.s. department of health and human services. when i lacked courage in myself, i was lent courage. when i didn't believe in myself, somebody believed in me. when i was hopeless, folks had hope for me. when you first get into recovery, you're looking back and you're thinking all you can see is that wreckage. and what we are, we understand that wreckage, but we're that light. we're that hope. we had that wreckage, too, and this is where we're at today. i've been there. i've done this. i know what you are going through. i can help you if you will allow me to help you. the recovery mentor program, the group of staff that have been there done that. when you say you are going to call me, then you need to call me. because a mentor can speak to somebody far differently than i can speak to somebody about motivating them for help and also seeing through all the filters. is this an opportunity you really want? comes with supportive housing, folks get people tied into the recovery community. they take them to 12-step meetings. they take the

of any wrongdoing in this. it appears to be completely the billing contractor hired by stanford hospital and the contract has with that company has been suspended. an investigation is expected from the department of health and human services. live at stanford hospital, terry mcsweeney, hth. >>> this morning, the lights are back on for 1.4 million customers in san diego millions are still in the dark in other parts of california and mexico after a massive power outage yesterday. it could take until tomorrow to get the lights back on to all 6 million customers who lost power last night. national guard is on emergency alert in case looters try to capitalize on the outage. dozens of flights have been cancelled. they believe an employee in southwest arizona likely caused the outage while removing some equipment. >> today marks the anniversary of the deadly gas explosion and fire in san bruno and killed 8 people and destroyed 38 homes. none of the homes ravaged in the blast have been completely rebuilt yet although construction has begun on seven replacements. last week the national transportation safety board issued a final report on the disaster saying substandard welds and litany of failures by pg&e led to the blast. the cal

and nobody said anything. they suspended the contract with the billing vendor responsible. employees have been cleared of any wrongdoing. an investigation into the department of health and human servicesed. terry mcsweeney, "abc 7 news." >>> federal officials are taking an unconfirmed al-qaeda threat to attack new york or washington, d.c. to coincide with the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. we have learned that three individuals entered the u.s. last month intended to launch a car bomb attack in new york or washington, d.c. president obama has ordered a counterterrorism community to redouble their efforts. so far the alert level has not changed but homeland security is considering raising it. coming up in 15 minutes we'll take you live to washington, d.c. for the very latest. >> there is no specific threats that bart's passengers is likely see other things, but they will see more heightened security. it's in operation for rail safe. heads of the nation's largest mass transit systems are using an abundance of caution head of the 9/11 anniversary. the goal is to coordinate deployment among local law enforcement agencies during an emergency. >> bart police are investigat

department of health and human services. good morning it for als who kron 4 morning you see, outside its preferred of first headlines >> national security is expression their concerns on the terrorist threat, her poem a terrorist threat al-qaida was planning on using a car bomb for bridgeses' or tunnels in the united states when this was an active plot the with correspondent with the anniversary of 911 this means that the threat gives detailed information of plot or plot some came from a source that is reliable would and that has been reliable information has not been >> part 10 years we have not allow terrace to intimidate us and we have lived our lives without fear and we will continue to do sell go about your business issue normally would but be diligent important >> law enforcement officials are investigating three people to enter the united states and the pair alert has not changed although it is being considered and now the weather forecast the weekend and beyond. you need to focus on the rain that might be moving in t

the survey by the department of health and human services so's the percentage of them rose the they did the '60s and '70s until it reached a peak in 1979. 14.1 cent of americans reported use of an illicit drug in the last 30 days. combined the 1980's with drug prevention campaigns. by 1992 when bill clinton was elected president, and illicit drug use have been cut by over 50%. the results were more dramatic for marijuana. it peaked at 14.2% in 1979 and decline to 3.4% in 1992. i am wondering if we had similar success with the out of wedlock rate if we would call that a failure. even today are drug use rates are lower than they were 30 years ago. let me turn to the issue of marijuana legalization of why i believe it is an important part of the demand for reduction strategy. by personally would prefer legalization of marijuana to the medical marijuana regimen we currently have in colorado. the repo model which is sold -- the retail model has become a complete joke. it is nothing more than state sanction fraud on the part of thousands of patients. only the terribly naive kid learn otherwis

we hope to send a clear message to the obama administration and the department of health and human services that this bill is important to ensuring that children receive adequate health care. i would like to thank mr. pallone and all the 114 co-sponsors that worked on this legislation, and i urge my colleagues to support this legislation, and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves his time. the gentleman from pennsylvania. mr. doyle: thank you, mr. speaker. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. doyle: mr. speaker, i rise in support of the children's hospital graduate medical education support re-authorization act offered by my good friends, mr. pitts and mr. pallone. i know mr. pallone is on his way to the floor and will be speaking shortly. this critical legislation will re-authorize the children's hospital graduate medical education program through 2016 to ensure that our children have access to the care they need and deserve. and i urge my colleagues to pass this bill with unanimous

caller: i participated in a job- training program through the department of health and human services. i completed 180 hours of specialized skill training in helping physicians in hospitals and other eligible providers to implement electronic health records. supposedly, there is such as federal demand that the federal government put -- there is such a demand that the federal government put the money into these programs. i felt that the program was not monitored. now i have been left on my own to figure out where i fit in. i seend look for job ads, they want numerous -- when i look for job ads, i see they want numerous years of experience or degrees. they do not assist us in putting us up with vendors of the software or hospitals. there is no follow-through. we went through the program. now we are on our own. no one wants to hire you because you just went through this four- month to five-month certification. how well are these certifications valued in the field? do not these colleges have an obligation to help us -- assistance in obtaining jobs? host: do you think there was a certain s

and by gao found echoed the conclusions of our investigation and that is that there was poor cooperation between dhs and the department of health and human services and instead saying that the cbr and risk in particular is of great concern that the bio watch program, under the bio watch program, a threat might not be identified in total more than a day after its release. what is being done to improve coordination between dhs and hhs in this area? and also edwin gearan to the paid the next generation, and more sensitive bio watch system will be diploid? >> thank you, senator. again here, we think that we make progress continually with other agencies in this regard and for example, does affect to integrate information for early warning and response on possible attacks and pandemics in the biosphere as well. as you know, the work we've done, for example, on the global nuclear detection architecture is generating work on an implementation plan to further develop our cooperation with other agencies in identifying threats to the homeland and responsibilities for early action to defeat those guys. so when jen three, specifically to answer your question,

and hospitals to be more prudent buyers. host: you are on with lewis morris of the department of health and human services. ller: excuse me, a comment and kind of a question, and kind of set it up quickly. when i was 18 in 1988, and it up by my own health insurance because i did not have parents and stuff, i was paying $50 a month, blue cross blue shield, for coverage. before i turned 20, i was in a motorcycle accident i broke my spine and ended up being permanently disabled, still am -- guest: sari. -- sorry. caller: thanks -- and have been on medicare and all that stuff. one of the things they did, and i ask them to do this, they evaluated and and they said health insurance is cheaper price than paying your health care, so we will pay your health insurance premium. over the years, i've been doing the math, and, again, recently, the cost of medicare, the health care provides,/the number participants it serves, and said to be 800, $850 a month. my health insurance costs are $220 a month. to me, that that does not add up. i'm wondering why in the world we cannot just leave medicare with its income from our t

and by gao found echoed the conclusions of our investigation and that is that there was poor cooperation between dhs and the department of health and human services and instead saying that the cbr and risk in particular is of great concern that the bio watch program under the bio watch program, a threat might not be identified in total more than a day after its release. what is being done to improve coordination between dhs and hhs in this area? and also edwin gearan to the paid the next generation and more sensitive bio watch system will be diploid? >> thank you, senator. again here we think that we make progress continually with other agencies in this regard and for example, does affect to integrate information for early warning and response on possible attacks and pandemics in the biosphere as well. as you know the work we've done, for example, on the global nuclear detection architecture is generating work on an implementation plan to further develop our cooperation with other agencies in identifying threats to the homeland and responsibilities for early action to defeat those guys. so when jen three specifically to answer your question, this

and distinguished members of the committee. i am dr. howard koh assistant secretary for health of the u.s. department of health and human services. very pleased to be joined there by my colleague dr. sandy kweder deputy director of the office of new drugs. as you have already heard, the growing problem of drug shortages is a troubling situation and one that the department and the secretary take very seriously. this growing trend has a potential to impact on our entire health care system and as we discussed this problem today, we should always remember our goal is to protect the health of people affected most by the shortages, patients and their families, and i say that as a physician who has cared for patients for over 30 years. according to the of d.a. center for drug of vibration and research, the number of drug shortages has been rising steadily over the last five years as you have already heard and although shortages can occur with any drug, generic, sterile injectables currently make up the largest increase of the sharon impact and 2010 some 74% of of the shortages involved these older sterile injectable agents. so these inc

i focused my comments until now on the fda, i should stress that the entire department of health department and human services has been fully engaged on this topic for quite some time. we view this as a pressing public health challenge, and we want to resove this on behalf of the department and indeed the entire country. this past summer, i convened a series of meetings with representatives from fda, national cancer institute, the cvv, center fer disease control and prevention, office of assistant secretary, the secretary of planning an evaluation, office of medicaid serves, and others. we have joined together as one department to explore more deeplyhe root causes of this problem and the possible steps to be taken to address them. these have been productive meetings and we pledge to continue them until the problem is solved. we are committed to protecting the public health. earlier this month with senior leaders in the department hosted a meeting with over a dozen representatives from pharmaceutical manufacturers, organizations, hospitals, insurance companies, group participating entities and add vo cosigh oa

health care proposal and now this law, you will really like it. but now we know in like a 25 or 30 page regulation at the department of health and human services haso regulation.gov and tell the government what you're really thinking, they're saying well, because of stablizing premiums, because they're making sure that people aren't being charged too much, we have a need now to see each and every record so some congresspeople are saying, well, this is going to lead to some orwellian kind of state where the government is looking at really the last, the last vestige of privacy in this country is how you're feel and what your medical -- >> legally, can they do that, number one? number two, what kind of legal problems do you have with it? >> oh, i think legally, they believe they can do it. there's something called hippa in this country that a lot of people are aware of whereby your health records are protected. but under certain situations you give up those rights in order to get benefits, in order to get care, in order to share information and there's a tremendous amount of sharing of information that already goes on with regard to our health record

for example according to recently released data from the department of health and human services in fy2009 two in 10 families on welfare including an adult who met a welfare to work requirement. the reasons are complicated including because a rising number welfare payments do not include an adult benefit called child only payments but as a testimony of nonpartisan government accountability office discusses many states are using an obscure county technique known as excess moe credits to weaken work requirements and avoid engaging adults and work training as they should. instead of the state helping more adults prepare and begin work based they scour the bucs uncover spending credit to the tanf program and thereby reduce the number of people they have in work activities. disc compounds underline concerns to few current recipients are engaging in constructive activities to prepare for work. that does a disservice to wall poor families who want to need help to become self-reliant. other concerns involve outright abusive taxpayer trust is just one adults on welfare spend taxpayer funds on liquo

i focused my comments until now on the fda, i should stress that the entire department of health department and human servicesas been fully engaged on this topic for quite some time. we view this as a pressing public health challenge, and we want to resolve this on behalf of the department and indeed the entire country. this past summer, i convened a series of meetings with representatives from fda, national cancer institute, the cvv, center fer disease control and prevention, office of assistant secretary, the secretary of planning an evaluation, office of medicaid services, and others. we have joined together as one department to explore more deeply the root causes of this problem and the possible steps to be taken to address them. these have been productive meetings and we pledge to continue them until the problem is solved. we are committed to protecting the public health. earlier this month with senior leaders in the department hosted a meeting with over a dozen representatives from pharmaceutical manufacturers, organizations, hospitals, insurance companies, group participating entities and add vo cosigh

the department of health and human services allowed this kind of thing in the past and it was allowed to lapse. this is an extension of something we had before h.r.h.s. was allowed to give out waivers in the past and some progress was made in a number of states. this bill restores that limited waiver authority and sets out criteria to keep the integrity and level of effort they need to have. they need to allow these states to do it. in addition to extending the program, the bill does something else that's really important. they passed the fostering connections. this fostering connections law did a lot of good in helping foster kids have a better chance of truly making it in the country. among other things, it addressed the health concerns of foster children who move from home to home and from health care setting to health care setting and it required states to develop health coordination plans for these kids so that they had some continuity of care. these plans include oversight of prescription medications including psychotropic drugs. as a psychiatrist who worked with child welfare a

and secondary public school in the country with four billion saved. on job training. 47 job training programs costing taxpayers 18 billion dollars a year. most administered by the departments of labor, education, and health and human servicesd also 44 of those 47 programs overlap with at least one other program with a similar service such as job counseling or job searches. how many of those programs were tested for their effectiveness? only a handful according to this report. >> 82 separate teacher training programs run by the federal government? 82! 82 separate sets of bureaucracies? sets of federal employees. none of these teacher programs have a training programs have a mit trick on them to evaluate whether or not they are successful. >> it is not enough to consolidate one, two, three or four programs. we need to look across agencies and really change the way washington works, change the way washington spends taxpayer money. become more efficient. more responsive. when you have that many programs none of them are going to work well. >> reporter: republican congressman klein is chairman of the house education and workforce community. now that we've had this report for six months you are the chairman of the house educatio

conclusions, investigations, that there was poor cooperation between dhs and the department of health and human services in assessing the risk. in particular, it is of great concern that the bio watch program, under the bio watch program, a threat agent may not be identified until more than a day after it is released. what is being done to improve coordination between dhs and hhs in this area? and also, when do you anticipate that the next generation, a more sensitive bio watch system, will be deployed? >> thank you, senator. again, here we think that we make progress continually with the other agencies in this regard, and for example, it does effectively integrate the information of art and warning and response on multiple attacks or pandemics in the biosphere as well. as you know, the work that we have done, for example, on the domestic -- on the global nuclear architecture is generating work on implementation plan to further develop our cooperation with other agencies in identifying threats to the homeland and responsibility for early action to defeat those threats. so, on 103 specifically to answer

the highest amount of false billing in a single take down since the department of justice and the department of health and human services came together in 2009. the indictments were unsealed yesterday and today. 70 individuals, including doctors, nurses, health-care company owners, and executives were charged with a variety of medicare fraud schemes. this was coordinated with take down operations last week when 18 others in detroit and miami were charged with their alleged roles in medicare fraud schemes. in dallas, two individuals were charged with their alleged roles in another scheme. it is important to understand the types of activities we have identified and have shut down. the individuals charged are accused of beria's health care fraud related crimes including conspiracy -- accused of various health care fraud related crimes including conspiracy and money-laundering. the charges involve treatment and services that were not medically necessary and were never even provided. we alleged that in many of these cases the information of patience and medicare beneficiaries was put at risk. patients recruiters and medicare

the department of health and human services under the directive of the national toxicology program has labeled recently st ymprmp ene as a cancer-causing. and 50% of other plastic resins and their uses. and some of the uses for products with styrenes and used in packaging and disposeals, food trays, cartons, furniture, office fixture, and the plastics that is used on electric thronic equipment, refrigerator components, liners, toys, high-tech products, major appliances, insulation, floor backing, pipe and citing, computer monitors, stereo covers, it's almost anything that is used in manufacturing and the fiberglass tubs, showers -- mr. carter: i believe this board is made out of this. this is a plastic -- what we call plastic board. and it's probably made out of that. mr. manzullo: could be. it demonstrates the fact that styrene is pervasive in our consumer products. what has happened, the national toxicology program said that it is a cancer-causing agent. they have done a poor job in looking at the other studies able. canada came to the opposite conclusion and said it does not cause c

that our discussion with a number of partners, whether it be department of public health, human services agency, the various community providers and service providers, we are sharing that assessment information and identification of criminogenic needs. supervisor cohen: criminogenic? is that a real word? >> it comes up under a spell check under the -- all the time is underling, so i am not sure that it is. it is well established in our profession, and it identifies those risk factors that are actually changeable. for example, substance abuse behavior, familial relationships, anti-social values and attitudes. interventions can be applied, working with offenders so they can change their attitudes, change the way they think, change their attitude toward substance embryos, improved family relationships, and therefore not reoffend. there is a concerted effort to work with our service providers and partners in doing more collaborative and court in any case management, focusing on those needs and risk factors that are identified through compass -- coordinating with case management. supervisor cohen: thank you. in the review this supposed

public defenders, sheriff, adult, and juvenile probation department, as well as social service agencies, including the human services agencies, the part of public health, sampras is a unified school districts, and of course, dcyf. we also included other entities such as the youth commissions and the board of supervisors. we want to make sure that this body that is going to direct the policy work for children within the city, has to be representative of the need and include all of our voices. just a little background. in 2008, the three departments represented here made a strategic decision with the support of our major to align our funding and policies and program development. this partnership led to many best practices that i can list and go on and on, but i'm going to call on best practices already recognize statewide. first of note, in 2009, we created a joint rfp, which is a joint solicitation process in which we blended the different funding streams that fund the violence prevention services, both federal, state, and local funding streams. so that we can create an easily extensible and streamlined system, so that when we say every door is the rig

from the department of public health reviewing the proposal, also with the housing, also with the tenderloin community for the impact on their community, and of course, muni, mta, the human services group. they are reviewing it in detail. i will be scheduling a meeting with cpm see to go over that to see how -- cpmc to see how that translates over into the impact we want. i do not have an immediate response except to say we are discussing this in detail. i am trying to help cpmc be successful at the board of supervisors and planning commission. as we get closer and closer to an agreement, i believe they need to listen to my advice. i work with the board every day. i know how they think. they want to have a successful vote at the board. i am guiding them there with the conditions -- it was not conditioned that i made up out of thin air. it was to deal with all of the impacts of a hospital decide they want -- they want a big hospital and want to have to take care of everything else. i am very careful to know how each supervisor feels about the impact on the project. i would like cpmc to be successful because they do not have a lot of time. we would do the best we can and review eve

they are the department of agriculture and commerce, health and human services, the environmental protectione federal communications commission. president obama has pledged to streamline and pare back the united states regulatory burden but with limits. >> i reject the argument that says for the economy to grow we have to rollback protection that ban hidden fees by credit card companies. rules that keep our kids from being exposed to mercury. laws that proceed convenient the health insurance agencies from shortchanging patients. >> reporter: he had skepticism about the alarms voiced by business owners. >> when they are making record profits they'll still complain about regulations, frankly they want to be able to do whatever they think is going to maximize their profits. >> reporter: now in fairness to president obama federal regulatory spending by uncle sam has grown steadily since the early 60s with the doubling of those budgets seen even in decades dominated by republican presidents. jenna and jon. jon: something interesting you don't think of as an employee at least i certainly don't. al

of alaska the time that issue came down. i told our health and human services department alaska was not going to mandate immunizations for our teenaged daughters. there had to have been something to that issue. because it didn't sound like governor perry. he was the proverbial anti-government type of maverick in texas. yet on this issue he decided he was going to know better than a parent was going to know terps of what the health care or health benefit -- know in terms of what the health care or health benefit would be. i knew there was something to it. the media went a little crazy demanded to see my 25,000 e-mails i had written during my term as governor. in those e-mails there is proof that the issue arose while i was governor of alaska. the e-mails reflect my principle was no, government stay out of lives of family decisions like that. and do not tell a parent their daughter must be immunized. i knew even at that time, something was up with that issue. now we are finding that yeah, something was up with that issue. i was an illustration or a bit of ed of some crony capitalism -- bit of evidence of some crony capitalism.

part of the overall effort by the government to manage prices and health care options in the insurance exchange that the law seeks to set up. so the government, health and human services department, says it will need raw data from health insurance companies to see what an individual's health risk score is, what coverage plan he or she is under and state averages on costs. hhs says either all of this information can be sent right to the federal government or to the state government, or health insurance companies can do the calculations and then pass along the information. and that alarms kansas republican congressman tim huelskamp who wrote an op-ed in the washington examiner last week saying, quote, what happens to the federal government if it loses a laptop full of patient data or business information? what recourse do individual citizens have against an inept bureaucrat who leaves the computer unlocked? imagine a wikileaks-sized disclosure of americans' health histories. in the proposed rule, health and human services -- led by secretary kathleen sebelius -- says it supports the option of turning over the health information to the states and goes on to say, quote, we recognize