KFF Health News’ What is health? : The ax is located in HHS

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It was also rumored for weeks, the Minister of Health and Humanitarian Services, Robert F. Kennedy Junior about a plan to reorganize the department. It involves reducing the size of its working power, which was previously approximately 80,000 people, a quarter of a quarter of and the unification of dozens of agencies created and authorized by Congress.

Meanwhile, only last week, HHS suddenly cut billions of funding to government and local public health departments, and canceled all research studies in Covid-19, as well as diseases that can develop into the following epidemic.

The members of this week’s team are Jolly Rovner from KFF Health News, Maya Goldman from Axios News, Joan Kenin from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg College of Public Health and Politico magazine, and Alice Miranda Olcity of Politico.

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Among the fast food from this week’s episode:

• While Federal Health officials reveal the targets of manpower cleansing and reorganization, the Republican Party’s congress was significantly quiet about the Trump administration’s interventions on its constitutional powers. Many management attempts to cancel and reorganize federal funds are underway despite the approval of the previous Congress to this funding. Although the changes may be necessary, reviewing how the federal government (or not) works in the general forums of the Congress sessions in Congress and the discussion of the ground – are part of the responsibilities of Congress.
• The major reorganization in HHS comes before the Senate ended with the confirmation of its leadership team. New leaders have been confirmed to the National Health Institutes and FDA only this week; Mehmet Oz, the nominated manager of Medicare & Medicaid service centers, has not now been confirmed when HHS released her announcement; President Donald Trump recently named an alternative candidate to lead and prevent control centers, after withdrawing his first choice.
• Although the changes early in Trump’s second state targeted the federal government and the workforce, the effects still feel a width outside the country’s capital. In fact, the discounts of jobs and financing are touched every region in the Congress in the country. They also feel in the fields of research that the Trump administration claims as priorities, such as chronic diseases: The administration said this week that it will close the office dedicated to a long long study, a chronic disease that continues to undermine millions of Americans health.
• Meanwhile, in the United States, doctors in Texas are about a rise in the cases of children with liver damage due to eating a lot of vitamin A – a supplement that Kennedy pays in response to the outbreak of measles. The governor of West Virginia, a comprehensive ban on food and additions. A woman in Georgia, who suffered from miscarriage, has been arrested regarding the improper disposal of the fetus.

Also this week, Ruffenner interviewed Larry Levitte, Vice President of KFF, about the fifteenth anniversary of the signing of the sponsorship law at reasonable prices and the threats faced by the Health Law.

In addition, for “additional credit”, the committee members suggest the health policy stories they read this week and which they believe should also read:

Jolly Rovner: CNNThe state legislators are looking for a “Chemtrails” ban. It can have realistic side effects“Posted by Ramsha Marov and Brandon Miller.

Alice Miranda Olstein: The New York Times Wirecter’s23andme has just submitted for bankruptcy. You must delete your data now“By Max Eddie.

Maya Goldman: “I wander in hell”: the loss of jobs, mental health, and federal workers’ fate, “by Rashana Bradhan and Neri Patani.

Joan before: Atlantic Ocean “America ended with meat“By Yasmine Woe.

Also mentioned in the podcast this week:

• The New York TimesWest Virginia banned 7 artificial food dyes, cited health concerns“By Alice Calman.
• Washington PostWhy left my job as a pioneer in the general health correspondence of the Disease Control Center“Written by Kevin Griffis.
• The politician “The limits of the power of RFK JR.“On the authority of Janaki.

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