The person who leads the Department of Health and Human Services oversees a vast workforce of more than 80,000 people, steers a $1.7 trillion budget, and can lift and improve the lives of all Americans. This one individual can pull the levers to ensure safer foods, provide better insurance coverage, build more resilient health systems and deliver lifesaving vaccines.
That same person can also undermine all of those things.
The above is an excerpt from a piece originally published in U.S. News & World Report.
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