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Robert F Kennedy Jr implements major restructuring of US Department of Health, eliminating 10,000 positions

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The US Department of Health, overseen by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is undergoing significant changes. Kennedy has publicly criticized the department as an inefficient "sprawling bureaucracy" and attributes the decline in Americans' health to the 82,000 workers employed by the department. In response, Kennedy has announced plans to downsize the workforce by 10,000 positions.

    1. This is an assault on Medicare. This is an assault on Medicaid. This is an assault on families and consumers across America.
    1. Let's be clear: Arbitrarily firing over 10,000 workers at the Department of Health and Human Services will not make Americans healthier. It will make Americans sicker and less secure.
    1. I want to promise you now that we're going to do more with less.
    2. This Department will do more—a lot more—at a lower cost to the taxpayer.
    3. We are realigning the organisation with its core mission and our new priorities in reversing the chronic disease epidemic.
    1. The only way to cut that high of a percentage of our staff, along with the 35 per cent contracting cuts that are being directed, is to drastically scale back what NIH does across the board.
Robert F Kennedy Jr implements major restructuring of US Department of Health, eliminating 10,000 positions