Project 2025's Goals for the Department of Health and Human Services

What is Project 2025?

Project 2025 is a presidential transition project to set the country on a path that resists leftist values. The goal is to promote the nuclear family, all states' self-governance, improve our military, and protect our “God-given” constitutional rights. Section 3 is titled “The General Welfare” and starts off with the goal of managing our national debt. It immediately discusses medicare and medicaid reform, as the authors know it is a hot topic. The author, Daren Bakst, is a Director of the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Center for Energy and Environment at the Heritage Foundation. The Heritage Foundation is a non-profit organization that supports the implementation of conservative policy. They have funded this entire report.

The Project's Goal's For DHHS:

Bakst has incredibly specific goals around abortion, families, and DE&I. Abortion will be completely outlawed, with charges against those who give, support, or provide funding for abortion care or access. This includes entire states, not just organizations like Planned Parenthood. Abortion requirements should also be permanently codified into law and court case decisions made during the Biden administration regarding these issues should be revisited. Fertility awareness and family planning should be expanded, while prioritizing home based child-care, rather than daycare. There should also be waivers available for adoption agencies for religious exemptions.  

Medicare will be completely revised, with the intention of reducing burdens on patients and providers. Bakst aims to do this by removing restrictions on physician-owned hospitals so private providers can bill medicare, repealing the Inflation Reduction Act, improving eligibility standards and requirements, and revisiting the No Surprises Act on surprise medical billing (with the hope of its removal). The CDC will also be undergoing reformations, as a core duty will be removed. A separate agency will now be responsible for public health “with a seriously confined ability to make policy recommendations (452).” The CDC will only be responsible for gathering and publishing data.  It will also be banned for receiving funding from pharmaceutical companies and can no longer use aborted cells for research purposes. Vaccines with other ingredients will also be imported into the country. Finally, COVID-19 Vaccination and Mask Requirements will be revoked.