Becker's Healthcare March 7, 2025
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has played a profound role in America’s health and well-being for more than 70 years with its reach including everything from policymaking to funding research to administering Medicare to protecting the public from diseases.
Only recently, however, has the largest government agency been on the average taxpayer’s radar due to a high-profile Congressional hearing to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as HHS secretary. HHS has touched nearly every American at some point and the scope of the agency might even surprise those who work in healthcare.
The mission of HHS is to “enhance the health and well-being of all Americans, by providing for effective health and human services and by fostering...