The tremendous cuts in the planned jobs of the Ministry of Health and Humanitarian Services (HHS) will pave the way for the exploitation of decisive services by the private sector, which is subject to the United States in future health emergencies, health experts and democratic politicians.
Health Minister Robert F. Kennedy Junior announced that the administration will lay off 20,000 workers of the workforce, which cost approximately 82,000 people on Thursday, or nearly a quarter of the number of employees.
“People need to understand the impact on them personally,” said Patti Murray, a Senate member of Washington State and party member of the Senate Credit Committee. “Preventing epidemics costs something. Failure to prevent it costs much more. All this makes us less willing to the following general health emergencies.”
HHS is a huge branch of the federal government, and it supervises a budget of $ 1.7 trillion. The department includes agencies are families – among them the centers of diseases and prevention control (CDC), National Health Institutes (NIH), Medical and Modome Care Services Centers (CMS) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
These successive branches protect Americans from the outbreak of the disease, lead the largest medical and behavioral research agency publicly funded in the world, and provide health insurance to 137 million Americans larger than low -income people through Medicare and Medicaid, and the approval and organization of medical devices in the country, medicines and foods.
Everyone will witness discounts in the proposed Kennedy reorganization, in some cases that double the unofficial “government efficiency Ministry” that billionaire Trump Elon Elon Musk.
At a virtual press conference on Friday, also attended by former leaders of some of the same agencies that are to be reduced, Murray said that the discounts in the expected jobs put the United States on a “dangerous collision cycle” and its ability to seriously weaken public health crises such as measles and bird building.
Murray warned that mass demobilization operations aim to pave the way to rid the important services of private companies. She claimed that Donald Trump and his billionaire ally, Elon Musk, who leads the execution of federal workers through the designated “Ministry of Government efficiency”, was neglecting the consequences because they mistakenly believed that public health responsibilities could be dedicated.
“One of the goals I started to hear from the Trump and Eileon Musk administration is that the government that does not need to do any of this, we will only privatize everything,” said Murray. “I will tell you, that our people in public health who go out, follow measles, track the heart cough, or track a new pandemic that will not work with a private company.
She said: “There will be no private company because their entire goal is to make a profit. There is no course to make profits in this.”
On Thursday, US Senate in the United States said they were drowned in “panic” calls from federal workers from the moment the announcement was almost, because a few details were provided about the branches or agencies that will be reduced. Kennedy said that 28 branches in the section will be merged into 15, with a focus on eliminating sites such as human resources and information technology.
She said that the task of public health workers is “to ensure that you have the information you need if there is a huge influenza epidemic in your area, whether you know that your children are safe or not you need to do it to protect them.
“There is no private company that will come and do so. That is why we have the so -called government agency, for the benefit of people. It will not be replaced by some profits.”
Her comments were supported by Robert Calif, a former food and drug deputy commissioner, who said that privatization would exacerbate the health inequality of the United States.
“Many of these things that are privatized will not only radically increase the huge variations that we have already,” he said.
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Trump and Kennedy adopted the slogan “Make America healthy again” to determine their mission to redirect the country’s approach to public health, but many experts and professionals say it threatens to achieve the opposite.
Kennedy insisted that the cuts in jobs will not affect “front lines workers” and will make agencies more efficient. However, a few details were provided about specific programs that will be affected, after that Graduate ads.
Senator Bill Cassidy seems to be a doctor who was also a doctor, and the Republican Senator looking forward to Kennedy during the confirmation sessions.
In a post on social media, he said: “I am interested in working better, such as the approval of life -saving drugs faster, and improve the Medicare service. I look forward to hearing how to reorganize these goals.”
Outside of the government, cuts were met with waves of doubt in the health sector, both in the registry and unknown in news reports.
“Any reduction in our public health infrastructure – whether workers or financing – is only working to make Americans more ill,” said Dr. Chris Bernil, director of the NAACP Center for Health Equality, in a statement.
We know that when America gets cold, blacks get the influenza.