{"id":23909,"date":"2025-01-22T08:56:22","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T13:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=23909"},"modified":"2025-01-22T08:56:26","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T13:56:26","slug":"how-does-the-department-of-health-and-human-services-hhs-impact-health-and-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=23909","title":{"rendered":"How Does the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Impact Health and Health Care?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

(By Rakesh Singh for The Kaiser Family Foundation Published: Jan 21, 2025)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With President Trump now in office, his cabinet nominees continue to testify at congressional hearings as part of the nomination process. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is the nominee to be the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and his nomination hearings will spotlight a range of HHS activities but may not touch on the full scope of the department\u2019s responsibilities. To better understand HHS\u2019s impact on the health care system and the American people\u2019s coverage, public health, safety, and well-being, what follows is an overview of the activities of the department. Continue reading here…<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(By Rakesh Singh for The Kaiser Family Foundation Published: Jan 21, 2025) With President Trump now in office, his cabinet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,12,53,16,6,9,15],"tags":[80,385,238,261,67,61,62,65],"class_list":["post-23909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fda","category-health-care-general","category-hhs","category-medicaid","category-medicare-general","category-medicare-advantage","category-part-dprescription-drugs","tag-cms","tag-healthcare-costs","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-hhs","tag-medicaid","tag-medicare","tag-medicare-advantage","tag-medicare-part-d"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23910,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23909\/revisions\/23910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}