Burwell says she will use “the full extent of the law” to recover federal funds spent on the state-run Obamacare exchanges that have failed. This also is something Republicans have been pushing for ...

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has set up a procedural vote on the nomination of Sylvia Mathews Burwell as HHS secretary. Sen. Reid filed cloture on the nomination, meaning the Senate will ...

Imagine someone came to you and said, "I will give you this job where you manage one of the most complicated, least popular, and most politically toxic things in the government, but before you get the ...

During her final confirmation hearing yesterday, Sylvia Mathews Burwell said the government should “use the full force of the law” to recover federal money spent improperly on flawed state exchanges, ...

HHS Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell discussed major strides the administration has accomplished with the ACA during a speech in the White House’s Eisenhower Executive Office Building, according to ...

President Obama today announced Sylvia Mathews Burwell to be the next director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), replacing acting administrator Jeff Zients. Burwell, 47, runs the Walmart ...

Sylvia Mathews Burwell's Senate confirmation hearing was not the tense, partisan fight over Obamacare some Republicans promised. It was actually pretty lame. The consensus was that Burwell is a great ...

Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Senior Professorial Lecturer, School of Public Affairs, American University Sylvia Mathews Burwell is a Senior Professorial Lecturer in ...

President Obama announced the nomination of Sylvia Mathews Burwell to become the new secretary of the Health and Human Services Department on Friday and said goodbye to departing Secretary Kathleen ...

The government says tens of thousands of people are enrolled in Medicaid even as they receive federal subsidies under the Affordable Care Act. By Robert Pear Patients’ advocates have joined doctors ...