Chapter 14 - Department of Health and Human Services

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Restructure CDC into two separate entities: one for data collection and one for public health recommendations
Prohibit CDC from making prescriptive public health recommendations
Ban CDC from accepting pharmaceutical industry contributions
Modernize CDC's data infrastructure
Transfer vaccine safety programs from CDC to FDA
Eliminate CDC programs that don't "respect human life and conscience rights"
Update CDC's abortion and maternity mortality reporting systems
End CDC's collection of gender identity data
Reform FDA's drug approval process to encourage generic competition
Change laboratory-developed test regulations
Implement measures to prevent drug shortages
Reverse FDA approval of chemical abortion drugs
Reinstate and strengthen safety protocols for abortion medication
Prohibit mail-order abortions
Allow importation of ethically-derived vaccines
Impose "cooling off" periods to prevent FDA reviewers from working for companies they regulated
Restrict direct-to-consumer drug advertising
End NIH research using fetal tissue from elective abortions
Eliminate NIH's human embryonic stem cell registry
Reconvene a National Council on Bioethics
Reform NIH funding allocation process
Impose term limits on NIH leadership
Decommission CDC and NIH Foundations
Abolish NIH Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
Reform Medicare to increase beneficiary control and reduce regulations
Implement site-neutral payments in Medicare
Remove restrictions on physician-owned hospitals
Make Medicare Advantage the default enrollment option
Repeal drug price negotiation program in Medicare
Reform Medicaid financing, including block grants or per capita caps
Add work requirements and time limits to Medicaid
Allow states to implement premiums and cost-sharing in Medicaid
Separate subsidized ACA exchange market from non-subsidized insurance market
Strengthen hospital price transparency rules
Expand association health plans and short-term health plans
Expand health savings accounts
Eliminate the Head Start program
Support palliative care instead of physician-assisted suicide
Restore Trump-era religious and moral exemptions to contraceptive mandate
Expand inclusion of fertility awareness-based methods in women's preventive services
Withdraw guidance allowing Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program funds for gender transition support
Prioritize funding for home-based childcare over universal daycare
Reform Indian Health Service to increase access to private providers
Restrict HHS's ability to declare indefinite public health emergencies
Reinstate the HHS SUNSET rule for regulation review
Create a Special Representative for Domestic Women's Health
Combine Assistant Secretary for Health and Surgeon General positions
Reframe Title X family planning program to focus on fertility awareness
Move Office of Refugee Resettlement to Department of Homeland Security
Implement policies to strengthen marriage and fatherhood in various programs