FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Media Relations
Statement from APHA Executive Director Georges C. Benjamin, MD
This is a nonsensical rearrangement of the agencies under their charge and an excuse to devastate the workforce for financial reasons. It will increase the morbidity and mortality of our population, increase health costs and undermine our economy. This proposal will break federal structures. It comes just days after destroying the state and local infrastructure and workforce with $11 billion in cuts, weakening the mission to make us all healthier. We actually know how to increase longevity and improve health. This will not accomplish it. It is a thoughtless proposal that should not move forward in any way. Congress and the American people should reject it.
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