Really important piece today about DOGE's destruction of a small HHS sub-agency dedicated to health care quality and trying to assure that medical systems use best practices and provide cost-effective care.
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Read the whole story here, but it's part of a larger story of Trump and Musk going not after "inefficiency" in government but just arbitrarily slashing things whose short-term consequences they think won't be visible.
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You also see this at the Education Department, where they've completely shut down program evaluation research — the ultimate penny-wise, pound-foolish move if you actually care at all about efficiency.
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Tariffs have been a political fiasco for Trump because the negative consequences start materializing right away via the stock market.
This other stuff is much easier to get away with, harms that compound over years.
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