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1. 452 Free NIH, CDC, and FDA regulators from private biopharmaceutical funding Not started
2. 452 Impose a 15-year cooling-off period on federal drug regulators Not started
3. 452 Restrict pharmaceutical executives from moving into regulatory agencies Not started
4. 452 Adopt outcome-based metrics across HHS Not started
5. 452 Have Congress clearly define and limit the CDC's legal authorities Needs Congress Not started
6. 452 Split the CDC into two separate agencies Needs Congress Not started
7. 453 Create a national epidemiological agency required by law to publish all data Needs Congress Not started
8. 453 Require by law that the CDC stay out of political policy assessments Needs Congress Not started
9. 453 Limit the CDC to facilitating rather than developing diagnostic tests Not started
10. 454 Prohibit CDC guidance from taking on a prescriptive character Not started
11. 454 Ban CDC Foundation acceptance of pharmaceutical industry money Not started
12. 454 Require HHS to modernize electronic public health data collection Needs Congress Not started
13. 454 Enter a public–private partnership to build a real-time health data system Not started
14. 454 Transfer VAERS, VSD, and CISA vaccine safety programs to the FDA Not started
15. 454 Eliminate CDC programs that do not respect life or conscience rights Not started
16. 455 Fund CDC studies into the risks and complications of abortion Not started
17. 455 Prohibit research using aborted fetal cells and baby body parts Needs Congress Not started
18. 455 Update CDC messaging on fertility awareness–based family planning Not started
19. 455 Cut funds to force every state to report abortion data to the CDC Not started
20. 455 Require CDC reporting of abortion complications and born-alive infants Not started
21. 456 Enact the Ensuring Accurate and Complete Abortion Data Reporting Act Needs Congress Not started
22. 456 End CDC collection of gender identity data Not started
23. 456 Prohibit brand-name makers from parking first-to-file generic rights Not started
24. 456 Create legal remedies for generic makers to obtain brand-name samples Needs Congress Not started
25. 456 Let laboratory-developed tests be shared between laboratories Not started
26. 457 Revise statutes and rules to ease access to laboratory-modified tests Needs Congress Not started
27. 457 Disentangle FDA and CMS authority over medical tests Needs Congress Not started
28. 457 Replace pass/fail drug facility inspections with a graded system Not started
29. 457 Add facility codes to drug packaging and build a searchable database Not started
30. 457 Exempt multi-source generic drugs from Medicaid rebate requirements Not started
31. 457 Promote efficacy trials of new uses for generic drugs Not started
32. 458 Withdraw FDA approval of chemical abortion drugs Not started
33. 458 Restore the mifepristone REMS in-person dispensing requirement Not started
34. 459 Reinstate pre-2016 safety protocols for Mifeprex and its generics Not started
35. 459 Fix FAERS reporting of abortion pill complications Not started
36. 459 Make abortion pill manufacturer inspections transparent Not started
37. 459 Stop approving mail-order abortion drugs Not started
38. 460 Restore the RFRA waiver for importing ethically derived vaccines Not started
39. 460 Require drug development free of aborted fetal cell lines Not started
40. 460 Impose a lengthy cooling-off period on FDA reviewers Not started
41. 460 Restrict pharmaceutical direct-to-consumer advertising Not started
42. 461 Restore the ethics advisory board for fetal tissue research Needs Congress Not started
43. 461 End NIH intramural fetal tissue research and the embryonic stem cell registry Not started
44. 461 Fund ethical alternatives to embryo-destructive research Not started
45. 461 Reconvene a National Council on Bioethics Not started
46. 461 Ban three-parent embryo creation and human cloning research Needs Congress Not started
47. 461 Create a research agenda on the harms of abortion to women Not started
48. 462 Impose term limits on top career NIH leaders Not started
49. 462 Block grant the NIH grants budget to the states Needs Congress Not started
50. 462 Decommission the CDC and NIH Foundations Not started
51. 462 Abolish the NIH Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Not started
52. 462 Fund NIH studies of the harms of cross-sex interventions Not started
53. 463 Restore the Medicare Coverage of Innovative Technologies (MCIT) rule Not started
54. 464 Restore the Risk Adjustment Data Validation (RADV) rule Not started
55. 464 Restore the Medicare Advantage Qualifying Payment Arrangement Incentive demonstration Not started
56. 464 Restore the Global and Professional Direct Contracting (ACO REACH) model Not started
57. 464 Advance Medicare site neutrality by eliminating the inpatient-only list Not started
58. 464 Restore conscience protections for providers in federal health programs Not started
59. 464 Remove ACA restrictions on physician-owned hospitals Needs Congress Not started
60. 464 Expand competition between Medicare Advantage and private plans Needs Congress Not started
61. 465 Make Medicare Advantage the default enrollment option Needs Congress Not started
62. 465 Replace Medicare Advantage's payment formula with competitive bidding Needs Congress Not started
63. 465 Reconfigure the Medicare Advantage risk adjustment model Needs Congress Not started
64. 465 Base Medicare payments on patient health status, not site of service Needs Congress Not started
65. 465 Replace Medicare fee-for-service with value-based payments Needs Congress Not started
66. 465 Codify price transparency regulations Needs Congress Not started
67. 465 Restructure 340B drug subsidies toward beneficiaries Needs Congress Not started
68. 465 Repeal the Medicare Shared Savings Program and the Inflation Reduction Act Needs Congress Not started
69. 465 Repeal the Medicare drug price negotiation program Needs Congress Not started
70. 465 Eliminate the Part D coverage gap and shift catastrophic costs to manufacturers Needs Congress Not started
71. 466 Reform Medicaid financing with block grants or per capita caps Needs Congress Not started
72. 467 End Medicaid state financing loopholes Not started
73. 467 Reform Medicaid payments to hospitals for uncompensated care Not started
74. 467 Replace the Medicaid enhanced match rate Needs Congress Not started
75. 467 Restructure Medicaid financing and reform DSH payments Needs Congress Not started
76. 467 Pay states a contingency fee for cutting Medicaid waste and fraud Not started
77. 467 Tighten Medicaid eligibility determinations and asset tests Not started
78. 467 Conduct oversight and reform of Medicaid managed care Not started
79. 467 Let states require Medicaid recipients to share costs Not started
80. 468 Add work requirements to Medicaid Not started
81. 468 Launch a Medicaid "personal option" for coverage outside the program Not started
82. 468 Add time limits or lifetime caps on Medicaid benefits Not started
83. 468 Let states buy private insurance for Medicaid families Needs Congress Not started
84. 468 Let states redesign Medicaid benefits without waivers Not started
85. 468 Eliminate current Medicaid waiver and state plan processes Not started
86. 469 Rescind Section 1115 waiver requirements for climate-related benefits Not started
87. 469 Clarify that direct primary care fees are not insurance Not started
88. 469 Scrap the No Surprises Act dispute resolution process Needs Congress Not started
89. 469 Permit shared savings and reference pricing plan options Not started
90. 469 Separate the subsidized ACA exchange market from the non-subsidized market Not started
91. 470 Add quality measures to hospital price transparency rules Not started
92. 470 Codify expansion of association health plans, short-term plans, and HRAs Needs Congress Not started
93. 470 Expand access to health savings accounts Not started
94. 470 Revise CLIA scope-of-practice rules for clinical laboratories Not started
95. 470 Create CLIA-equivalent certification pathways for non-clinical labs Not started
96. 471 Withdraw the Medicaid abortion travel guidance and Section 1115 waivers Not started
97. 472 Issue guidance that states may defund Planned Parenthood in Medicaid Not started
98. 472 Propose a rule disqualifying elective abortion providers from Medicaid Not started
99. 472 Pass the Protecting Life and Taxpayers Act Needs Congress Not started
100. 472 Approve Section 1115 waivers excluding abortion providers from Medicaid Not started
101. 472 Withdraw Medicaid funds from states that mandate abortion insurance Not started
102. 473 Reinstate the Trump ACA abortion separate payment regulation Not started
103. 473 Audit HHS compliance with the Hyde Amendment Not started
104. 474 Rescind the EMTALA abortion guidance Not started
105. 474 Withdraw DOJ EMTALA enforcement lawsuits against pro-life states Not started
106. 474 Repromulgate the national coverage determination on gender reassignment surgery Not started
107. 474 Use EMTALA and Section 504 to investigate born-alive infant cases Not started
108. 474 Revive the Trump rule on treatment of infants born alive Not started
109. 474 Pass the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act Needs Congress Not started
110. 474 Permanently codify the Hyde and Weldon amendments Needs Congress Not started
111. 475 Reverse the redefinition of sex across HHS and CMS programs Not started
112. 475 Keep lactation room requirements in Section 1557 rulemaking Not started
113. 475 Announce nonenforcement of the CMS COVID-19 vaccine mandate Not started
114. 475 Refrain from COVID-19 mask mandates on health care facilities Not started
115. 476 Pay damages to workers fired under the CMS vaccine mandate Not started
116. 476 Apply TANF work requirements to noncash benefits Not started
117. 476 Require states to track and audit TANF spending outcomes Not started
118. 476 Require explicit measurement of TANF marriage and family formation goals Not started
119. 477 Bar TPP and PREP subgrantees from promoting abortion Not started
120. 477 Give Sexual Risk Avoidance programs equal grant funding Not started
121. 477 Abolish approved sex education curriculum lists Not started
122. 477 Create criteria for evaluating sex education curricula Not started
123. 477 Repeal the 2016 SOGI nondiscrimination condition on HHS grants Not started
124. 478 Restore religious waivers of HHS grant conditions for faith-based agencies Not started
125. 478 Pass the Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act Needs Congress Not started
126. 478 Withdraw the ORR policy allowing elective abortions in custody Not started
127. 479 Create a child support tax credit for nonresident parents Needs Congress Not started
128. 479 Induce states to adopt a child support payment smartphone app Not started
129. 480 Use HMRE funds for high school marriage and risk avoidance curricula Not started
130. 480 Let child welfare funding pay for marriage and relationship education Needs Congress Not started
131. 480 Require Title X clinics to provide marriage information and referrals Not started
132. 480 Give HMRE programs a fair and realistic assessment Not started
133. 481 Open HMRE grants to faith-based groups defining marriage as one man and one woman Not started
134. 481 Launch a national pro-fatherhood messaging campaign with HMRF funds Not started
135. 481 Prioritize faith-based programs in HMRF grant allocations Not started
136. 482 Fund father-involvement programs and speed termination of parental rights Not started
137. 482 Eliminate the Head Start program and the Office of Head Start Needs Congress Not started
138. 482 Rescind Head Start COVID-19 vaccine and mask requirements Not started
139. 482 Ensure ACL programs do not facilitate physician-assisted suicide Not started
140. 483 Rewrite the National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers Not started
141. 483 Let CMS use HRSA's 340B data instead of its own survey Needs Congress Not started
142. 483 Define the telehealth locus of service as the provider's location Needs Congress Not started
143. 483 Restore Trump religious and moral exemptions to the contraceptive mandate Not started
144. 484 Require HRSA to set women's preventive services mandates by rulemaking Not started
145. 484 Rescind HRSA's ACOG contracts and appoint a new advisory committee Not started
146. 485 Require coverage of fertility awareness–based methods and supplies Not started
147. 485 Remove male condoms from the women's preventive services mandate Not started
148. 485 Remove Ella from the contraceptive mandate Not started
149. 485 Withdraw Ryan White guidance funding gender transition procedures Not started
150. 485 Ensure medical and doula training is not used for abortion training Not started
151. 486 Investigate medical school compliance with the Coats–Snowe Amendment Not started
152. 486 Ensure ACGME complies with conscience statutes Not started
153. 486 Make abortion training opt-in for medical students Not started
154. 486 Require states receiving HHS funds to enforce Coats–Snowe Not started
155. 486 Fund home-based childcare rather than universal day care Not started
156. 486 Provide HRSA resources on the mother–child relationship Not started
157. 487 Fund doula services for low-income mothers Not started
158. 487 Expand private care options for Indian Health Service patients Not started
159. 488 Increase rural telehealth access and interstate licensure Not started
160. 488 Limit HHS public health emergency declarations to a set time frame Needs Congress Not started
161. 488 Reinstate and codify the HHS SUNSET rule Needs Congress Not started
162. 488 Investigate HHS collusion with Big Tech to censor COVID dissent Not started
163. 489 Eliminate the HHS Reproductive Healthcare Access Task Force Not started
164. 489 Restore the HHS mission statement "from conception to natural death" Not started
165. 489 Create a Special Representative for Domestic Women's Health Not started
166. 490 Restructure the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps Needs Congress Not started
167. 490 Merge the Assistant Secretary for Health and Surgeon General positions Needs Congress Not started
168. 490 Convert the Principal Deputy ASH into a three-star Deputy Surgeon General Not started
169. 491 Withdraw OASH support for cross-sex medical interventions Not started
170. 491 Appoint a Deputy Assistant Secretary for Population Affairs to refocus Title X Not started
171. 491 End religious discrimination in Title X grant selections Not started
172. 491 Rescind the Biden Title X rule and reinstate the Trump Title X rule Not started
173. 491 Pass the Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition Act Needs Congress Not started
174. 491 Review the ASPR–FEMA emergency response arrangement Not started
175. 492 Invoke the Defense Production Act only in the gravest circumstances Not started
176. 492 Reform the Strategic National Stockpile as supplier of last resort Not started
177. 492 Rescind the OGC PREP Act liability memo Not started
178. 492 Restore OCR authority over conscience and religious freedom enforcement Not started
179. 492 Repeal DOJ OLC memos allowing abortion funding despite Hyde Not started
180. 492 Rescind the legal analysis authorizing the COVID eviction moratorium Not started
181. 492 Rescind the OGC analysis of the Bowen v. AHA injunction Not started
182. 493 Rescind the analysis dismissing the University of Vermont Medical Center case Not started
183. 493 Rescind the analysis restoring $200 million in Medicaid funds to California Not started
184. 493 Retitle the Director of the Office of Global Affairs as Assistant Secretary Not started
185. 493 Give OGA oversight of Mexico City policy implementation Not started
186. 493 Co-locate all OGA staff in one building Not started
187. 493 Train and replace health attachés who oppose Administration policy Not started
188. 494 Pass the Conscience Protection Act Needs Congress Not started
189. 494 Restore and fully fund the Conscience and Religious Freedom Division Not started
190. 494 Withdraw funding from entities that violate conscience laws Not started
191. 494 Issue and finalize the draft OCR RFRA and religious freedom rule Not started
192. 494 Reestablish religious exemption waivers for child welfare agencies Not started
193. 495 Restore OCR authority over RFRA vaccine accommodation requests Not started
194. 495 Restore the Trump-era Section 1557 and Section 504 OCR regulations Not started
195. 495 Remove Biden guidance on gender identity under Section 1557 Not started
196. 495 Announce nonenforcement of SOGI discrimination bans under Section 1557 Not started
197. 496 Refocus Section 1557 enforcement on race, sex, and disability discrimination Not started
198. 496 Finalize Trump-era disability rules on QALYs and assisted suicide Not started
199. 496 Withdraw the OCR pharmacy abortion mandate guidance Not started
200. 497 Withdraw the OCR HIPAA abortion privacy guidance Not started

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