"Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was just a few weeks into his new job as health secretary in March 2025 when he unveiled a dramatic plan to remake the Department of Health and Human Services. Kennedy quickly determined that the size and structure of his agency which includes the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration, the National Institutes for Health was "incomprehensible." He said it was bloated and that explained why federal health officials had failed to improve Americans' health."
""We're going to eliminate an entire alphabet soup of departments and agencies while preserving their core functions," he said in a social media video. Those "core functions" would be preserved, he explained, "by merging them into a new organization called the Administration for a Healthy America or AHA." The name plays off of Kennedy's "Make America Healthy Again" slogan. Weeks into the second year of the second Trump term."
"There's no public information about when AHA might be created, and very little about what staff and programs it would include. Not a normal process The most recent public document from HHS about AHA was a budget request published in June. It says that the new agency will "focus on areas including primary care, environmental health, HIV/AIDS, maternal and child health, mental and behavioral health, and workforce development.""
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced in March 2025 a plan to remake the Department of Health and Human Services, calling the agency's size and structure incomprehensible and bloated. He proposed eliminating multiple departments and merging core functions into a new Administration for a Healthy America (AHA). On April 1, 2025, many HHS staff and departments were eliminated in chaotic cuts, yet AHA has not been established and no public timeline exists for its creation. A June HHS budget request says AHA would focus on primary care, environmental and maternal health, HIV/AIDS, mental and behavioral health, and workforce development, with no congressional funding allocated.
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