RFK Jr. Slashes Health Bureaucracy in Bold Move to "Make America Healthy Again"

In a sweeping shake-up of America&rsquo;s sprawling public health apparatus, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has unveiled an ambitious plan to dismantle what he calls the &ldquo;alphabet soup&rdquo; of inefficient federal health bureaucracies. Kennedy is consolidating dozens of scattered departments, offices, and agencies into a unified structure: the Administration for a Healthy America (AHA). With a clear mission to refocus on outcomes rather than process, Kennedy aims to transform a bloated and siloed system into a lean, patient- and taxpayer-focused engine for national wellness. &ldquo;We spend more on healthcare than any other country,&rdquo; Kennedy said, &ldquo;yet we rank dead last in health outcomes. It&rsquo;s time to fix the system from the ground up.&rdquo;
The numbers are damning. Over the past four years, staffing at HHS has ballooned by 38%, with little to show for it. American life expectancy has dropped, chronic disease has soared, and the U.S. now suffers the highest rate of chronic illness in the developed world&mdash;despite outspending every peer nation. Behind the curtain is a maze of more than 100 communications teams, 40 information technology departments, and nine human resource units&mdash;many working at cross purposes, hoarding health data, and sometimes operating in the interests of industry rather than public health. Fragmentation, duplication, and bureaucratic turf wars have become the norm, not the exception. &ldquo;This isn&rsquo;t public service,&rdquo; Kennedy said. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s institutional inertia that harms public health and morale.&rdquo;