{"id":16821,"date":"2025-04-01T18:57:53","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T18:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/federal-health-workers-make-up-less-than-1-of-agency-spending\/"},"modified":"2025-04-01T18:57:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T18:57:53","slug":"federal-health-workers-make-up-less-than-1-of-agency-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/federal-health-workers-make-up-less-than-1-of-agency-spending\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Health Workers Make Up Less Than 1% of Agency Spending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A few days ago, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, embarked on a media tour to defend his decision to lay off thousands of his department\u2019s workers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/27\/us\/politics\/health-department-job-layoffs-rfk-jr.html\" title=\"\">announced a plan<\/a> last week to cut 10,000 jobs, in addition to the estimated 10,000 jobs cut through retirements and buyouts in the early weeks of the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Kennedy had called the Health and Human Services Department \u201cthe biggest agency in government, twice the size of the Pentagon, $1.9 trillion dollars,\u201d during an interview with <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7t2TlPvitlM\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">NewsNation<\/a>. He went on to suggest that the department was doing little to improve the health of Americans, \u201cwith all the money that was being thrown at it, with all the personnel that were being brought in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">H.H.S. does spend more than the Department of Defense, which has a discretionary budget of about $850 billion. But according to several budget experts, the overwhelming majority of the H.H.S. department\u2019s $1.8 trillion budget is not spent on its staff.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Spending on personnel at the federal health agencies accounts for a small fraction of its budget \u2014 less than 1 percent, according to three budget experts. That includes the staff of the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health and others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The overwhelming majority of the money is spent through Medicare, for the health care of people older than 65, or through Medicaid, for people with low incomes. Those funds filter out to hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, dialysis centers, pharmaceutical companies, medical device makers and Medicare Advantage private insurance plans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Melinda Buntin, professor of health policy and economics at Johns Hopkins University, said the $17.6 billion in costs for H.H.S. employees made up less than 1 percent of the department\u2019s budget, and has risen in line with overall spending.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI think that most people would be surprised by what a small share of Health and Human Services spending is for personnel, both their wages and compensation and benefits,\u201d she said, noting that it made sense in the context of the agency\u2019s spending on care.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Bobby Kogan, senior director of federal budget policy at the Center for American Progress, a left-leaning think tank, said Mr. Kennedy\u2019s framing was \u201cincredibly misleading.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt would leave someone with a super wrong understanding of what is going on really,\u201d Mr. Kogan said. \u201cThe only story of what\u2019s going on in H.H.S. is that we have a huge increase in the elderly population.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">An H.H.S. spokesman said the work force reductions are meant to cut $1.8 billion a year in federal spending, and that the amount is significant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Administration for Children and Families, another agency within H.H.S., also spends billions of dollars on services to the public. It operates Head Start programs, foster care, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, formerly known as welfare, and care homes for unaccompanied minors from other countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Chris Towner, policy director for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, made his own calculation, also concluding that H.H.S. staff costs appeared to be shy of 1 percent of the department\u2019s spending. The figure could be slightly higher, he said, given the number of health agency workers with advanced degrees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">So far, the Trump administration has talked about fraud in the federal government repeatedly \u2014 though not the type that\u2019s long been a target in Congress. Lawmakers have repeatedly raised the idea of reeling in Medicare Advantage insurance plans, which were estimated to overcharge Medicare <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.medpac.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Mar25_MedPAC_Report_To_Congress_SEC.pdf\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">by tens of billions<\/a> of dollars a year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/01\/health\/hhs-employees-spending-one-percent-budget-layoffs.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago, Robert F. 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