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“ ... Secretary Kennedy’s personnel reductions and planned reorganization of HHS already threaten Americans’ health, as critical programs that respond to specific needs have been cut. But the long-term consequences go well beyond those of shuttering individual programs that respond to specific needs. Kennedy has taken a sledgehammer to the Department’s broader capacity to analyze, track, and improve its own programs and the health system more generally. Rather than reinvent government to better serve the American people, as his predecessors sought to do, he has made government less efficient and effective.”

Editor’s Note

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic, “Health Policy at a Crossroads,” produced with the support of the Commonwealth Fund. Articles in this topic offer timely analysis of regulatory, legislative, and judicial developments in health policy under the Trump-Vance Administration and the 119th Congress.

SEE: Trump Administration’s HHS Cuts: Creating Waste And Inefficiency, Not Eliminating Them | Health Affairs

https://www.healthaffairs.org/content/forefront/trump-administration-s-hhs-cuts-creating-waste-and-inefficiency-not-eliminating-them

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