14. Department Of Health And Human Services (Summary)

Author: Roger Severino

Summary

• HHS, with a $1.6 trillion budget, significantly impacts Americans’ lives. Its focus under different administrations has shifted from protecting life to promoting equity.
• U.S. life expectancy continues to decline, highlighting the need for HHS to return to its core mission of serving the health and well-being of all Americans.
• Goal #1: HHS should protect life, conscience, and bodily integrity, rooted in biological realities, not ideology.
• Goal #2: Health care reform should empower patient choices and provider autonomy, reducing government interference and encouraging competition.
• Goal #3: HHS should promote stable, flourishing married families, reversing policies that undermine traditional family structures.
• Goal #4: The federal government’s response to health emergencies must be transparent, scientifically grounded, and respect individual rights.
• Goal #5: HHS must ensure greater transparency, accountability, and oversight, especially to prevent regulatory capture by the pharmaceutical industry.
• CDC should be restructured to separate its data-gathering and public health policy functions to prevent conflicts of interest.
• The FDA should address drug shortages, promote generic drugs, and reverse approvals of dangerous chemical abortion drugs.
• NIH should eliminate unethical research practices, such as using fetal tissue from elective abortions, and instead focus on ethical, life-affirming research.
• Medicare and Medicaid reforms are necessary to empower patient choice, reduce waste, and encourage competition.
• HHS should defund organizations like Planned Parenthood and uphold the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits federal funding for abortions.
• The CDC and NIH should focus on real data and transparency, especially in reporting on abortion and vaccine safety.

Analysis

• If these recommendations were implemented, the U.S. government could see a significant shift towards protecting life from conception to natural death, with a reduced focus on identity politics.
• Empowering patient choice and provider autonomy could lead to more personalized and cost-effective health care.
• Promoting traditional family structures could potentially strengthen societal stability but might provoke significant political and social debate.
• Greater transparency and accountability in public health could restore trust in HHS but may also limit the influence of powerful industries like Big Pharma.
• Redefining the CDC’s and FDA’s roles could lead to more effective and focused public health policies, especially during emergencies.

Tags

• HHS Reform
• Health Care Policy
• Life and Conscience Protection
• Government Accountability
• Public Health Strategy

Read the original chapter text here: https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf#page=482

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