{"id":2677,"date":"2025-03-27T23:07:12","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T23:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/27\/hhs-cuts-rfk-jr-kennedy-reorgnization-layoffs-donna-shalala-criticism\/"},"modified":"2025-03-27T23:07:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T23:07:12","slug":"hhs-cuts-rfk-jr-kennedy-reorgnization-layoffs-donna-shalala-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/27\/hhs-cuts-rfk-jr-kennedy-reorgnization-layoffs-donna-shalala-criticism\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Former HHS Secretary Donna Shalala on the agency\u2019s \u2018silly new bureaucracy\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Opinion: Former HHS Secretary Donna Shalala on the agency\u2019s \u2018silly new bureaucracy\u2019<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>When I was secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services under President Bill Clinton, an agency head came to me with a dramatic reorganization plan.<\/p>\n<p>I advised him that unless it was data- and outcome-driven, he was wasting his time. Just as important, the reorganization would unsettle and confuse his new colleagues. As a result, his legacy would be a new structure rather than improving people\u2019s lives.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/03\/27\/hhs-cuts-rfk-jr-kennedy-reorgnization-layoffs-donna-shalala-criticism\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Read the rest\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Donna Shalala<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/03\/27\/hhs-cuts-rfk-jr-kennedy-reorgnization-layoffs-donna-shalala-criticism\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opinion: Former HHS Secretary Donna Shalala on the agency\u2019s \u2018silly new bureaucracy\u2019 When I was secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services under President Bill Clinton, an agency head came to me with a dramatic reorganization plan. I advised him that unless it was data- and outcome-driven, he was wasting his time. Just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2145,2146,2143,2147,2148,2144,2149],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-2677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cdc","category-fda","category-first-opinion","category-hhs","category-nih","category-politics","category-rfk-jr","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2677"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}