Top US health agency makes $25,000 buyout offer to most of its employees

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : “I have a list in my head,” Kennedy said of potential firings at the agency.
50% : HHS is one of the government’s costliest federal agencies, with an annual budget of about $1.7 trillion that is mostly spent on health care coverage for millions of people enrolled in Medicare and Medicaid.
42% : The latest move to reduce the number of federal health workers comes as the the CDC is assisting with a deadly measles outbreak in West Texas and New Mexico and as lawmakers are debating deep cuts to Medicaid in the federal budget.
41% : WASHINGTON (AP) — Most of the 80,000 federal workers responsible for researching diseases, inspecting food and administering Medicare and Medicaid under the auspices of the Health and Human Services Department were emailed an offer to leave their job for as much as a $25,000 payment as part of President Donald Trump’s government cuts.
36% : The agency oversees health insurance for roughly half the country through Medicare for older adults and Medicaid for disabled and poor Americans.

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