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Micheal Nash, Ph. D.'s avatar

Two thrills for me. First..eliminate,redundancy. Have talked about redundancy in the gov. until I was blue in the face. Second...put CDC back to being the infectious disease fighting entity it was built to be. How often have I said it needed to shed all the mission creep added to it after it was moved into HHS to help enrich fauci (can think of no other reason).

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D D's avatar

I knew there was a reason I didn't investigate policy making and the assorted divisions within any corporation or government institution. I chose to study world religions and "what makes people tick". I can appreciate the fortitude and incredible detail involved, now if only a fraction can be implemented SOON!

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Jean's avatar

And an incredible number of position descriptions, qualifications, space and funititure/equipment accommodations, mind boggling details.

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53rd Chapter's avatar

Herculean and impressive! Now to guess how it will be lambasted by the Hydra-headed monster otherwise known as Bigpharma and its acolytes.

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Joy Metcalf's avatar

I'm sure the Dems will find a way to make this sound bad. They don't seem to care about health, only about party politics.

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mbecklen's avatar

I really question the need for these lofty goals of this huge governmental agency(s). While writing these goals and purposes and mission statements help to clarify the direction of efforts of those involved or engaged in 'government work,' they are merely justifications for more Big (ie, bigger) Government. I don't agree with the basic premises presented that it's the government's job to make Americans healthy. I believe it's the government's job to stop the poisoning of our waters, soils, air, our feed-stocks (animals and plants) and our own bodies by mostly large international companies located inside and outside our national borders. If a molecule is found to have near-miraculous healing properties doesn't mean that each of us (or our animals) should be required to consume it, or that a company should be required to manufacture or mine it. We must control our urge to use government as a tool to control others as we would like to control our own unhealthy urges.

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Joy Metcalf's avatar

I can't find anything in the Constitution to justify health being within the purview of government. Unfortunately, the Constitution has been largely ignored and scrapped.

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Leo's avatar

Good point. However, perhaps by stating these goals/purposes, it may provide a path to tackle what stands in the way of individuals attaining them, e.g. who/what is poisoning us.

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Melanie Reynolds's avatar

Let’s hope Congress can see the vision for change.

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Barbara Charis's avatar

The Administration didn't mention the word Nutrition once, when 95% of illness is created..... by lack of knowledge pertaining to the right nutrition. It mentions Substance Abuse, but almost all drugs should be under that classification ....and doctors push toxic drugs, because they know little about nutrition.. Doctors aren't taught.. what happens internally, when most drugs are used by their patients. They all contain side effects. . Doctors may think that telling their patients to use a simple baby aspirin is alright, but it can contribute to macular degeneration and bleeding in the intestines. If doctors studied real nutrition, not what the Processed Food Industry (who provides its research and supports nutrition school)... has provided to the people in the world... People would not get ill. Our government should support soil restoration and regeneration, so there would be nutrients in the food that is being grown; not toxic pesticides. . Our government should promote natural unprocessed food in order to promote health for the people. However, the Medical Industry, The Food Industry, Big Chemical and Big Ag provide Big Bucks for the government and investors ...and the health of the consumer is not in the equation.

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Dr. Robert W. Malone's avatar

The MAHA commission report has a lot of targets regarding nutrition and chronic disease.

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LINDA's avatar

I support educating all doctors to the benefits of good nutrition. Perhaps a online class that could be taken with testing and certification.

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Micheal Nash, Ph. D.'s avatar

Understand MAHA very big on nutrition.

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Barbara Charis's avatar

Problem being, 'Big Food Industry' provides the nutrition info! It supports nutrition schools...to promote its products.

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Joy Metcalf's avatar

As long as RFK Jr is in charge, their information won't be paramount. Once he leaves.....that's another story.

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Leo's avatar

Boom! This spotlights the two competing world views - both of which have a place. The main issue is when the big/corporate/government overtakes the local/individual/private.

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Fred Jewett's avatar

In my lifetime I cannot remember when merging separate operations or governments into one produced a better result. Service declines, staff are indifferent and can hide behind a bureaucracy, etc. I hope RFK can show me that bigger can be better.

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Alio McDavis's avatar

In the late 90s, due to the landfill crisis, Texas came up with "The Master Composter Program". It was designed with a few paid agents to train volunteers who would then train groups, neighborhood associations, Boy Scouts, Girl scouts, churches...... whoever would let us set up. I dream to see that set up nationally to inspire "A Garden for every home" initiative to get these kids educated about the thin film of soil life that covers our planet and familiar with the term "bio-remediation".

It serves all of, environmental goals, mental health, physical health and works well into drug and alcohol recovery also.

I can't wait to see where the new creations will pop up after the waste gets scrapped and funds become redistributed to the new paradigm of balance and responsibility from the grass roots up where all of our progress as a whole should be stimulated instead of rules and regulations.

How about a system of ethics instead of penalizing laws? I guess we'd have to bring in the Cub Scouts to get the world to promise to due our best to serve God, my country and to obey the laws of the pack.

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KATHRYN MAGNONE's avatar

I am a registered nurse with 45 years experience in the ‘ healthcare workforce’. You could hire me. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DONT HIRE EGGHEAD DOCTORS OF NURSING.

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Laurel LaFramboise's avatar

I was going to complain that we don't need MORE BUREAUCRACY but it looks like AHA is replacing a couple of currently existing administrations as well as yanking bureaucrats out of others. Re-arranging furniture is OK as long as it's because you moved into a smaller house. Bottom line: is Bobby shrinking HHS or moving into a bigger house?

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LB (Little Birdie)'s avatar

Going with what I am familiar with on his habits, I'm gonna say (with hope in my heart) he's into shrinking.

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LB (Little Birdie)'s avatar

I Always like the plan of reduction, elimination, consolidation in Any form of government because they tend to Always want more, more, more.

My questions are:

What is the bottom line on savings? Don't see anything outlining differences between what is being spent now compared to proposed $20B+.

Also, what is timeline and how does it look when considering the upcoming elections and outcomes in November?

Working in government always feels like working in glue when it comes to reform. This is Big Reform. The bigger the problem, the slower it seems to progress. Not complaining, just my thoughts in this moment of time.

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Fred's avatar

Thank you Dr. Malone! I would like for the current HHS to reverse this change:

On 21Dec2023, the Department of Health and Human Services and FDA issued a final ruling to amend a provision of the 21st Century Cures Act to allow: ...an exception from the requirement to obtain informed consent when a clinical investigation poses no more than a minimal risk to the human subject... This ruling went into effect 22Jan2024. Note that there's zero definition of "minimal risk!” I’ll add that no o e sis formally calling out the dangers of the Covid shots.

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LB (Little Birdie)'s avatar

New question, off the cuff and subject at hand.

Is anyone else experiencing difficulty in using checks and/or cash these days? I've got some experiences (negative) in this area and would like to hear others who may have same. Leading to - initiative to regulate us all thru a new (improved??!!hmmm), system which, involves more regulation and monitoring. Maybe this is subject for another day.

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D D's avatar

We have used cash for some work we have had done, no problem; no tax, no contract but a handshake and a negotiable price. Excellent work and used some rusty Spanish for fun. (I know that's not what you are talkin' about)

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Fred's avatar

A cash transfer between two existing and previously verified accounts was denied for two weeks because Chase bank fraud department “couldn’t verify.” I pointed out that I had transferred cash into Chase from the exact bank that they said they couldn’t verify for an outgoing g transfer. Their response? “Money coming in is not handled the same way as money going out.” BTW, I have to have the cleanest money trail of anyone in existence. Debanking effort???

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Joy Metcalf's avatar

I use cash except for online purchases. What I noticed at our local Hannaford Supermarket is that the self-serve checkouts have gone from several being credit card only to only one. People want the choice and more people are using cash as they become aware of the agenda.

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Thomas A Braun RPh's avatar

Well designed to accomplish the goals for making America healthy again. So..will this be a bipartisan effort, or willit be politicized?

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John Wygertz's avatar

May I suggest: AHA! As in, gotcha! Gonna be data-driven now, not political-whim driven. What a beautiful idea.

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Joy Metcalf's avatar

The next step needs to be to take CDC out of the vaccine development and distribution business. Until that conflict of interest is resolved, they will be looking at vaccine profits instead of health.

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