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Roger Severino

Roger Severino is Vice President of Domestic Policy at The Heritage Foundation. As director of the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) from 2017 to 2021, he led a team of more than 250 staff enforcing civil rights, conscience, and health information privacy laws. Roger subsequently founded the HHS Accountability Project at the Ethics & Public Policy Center. He holds a JD from Harvard Law School, an MA in public policy from Carnegie Mellon University, and a BA from the University of Southern California.

Bylined chapters

• 14. Department of Health and Human Services

Major recommendations in those chapters

1. 14 · 452 Have Congress clearly define and limit the CDC's legal authorities Needs Congress Not started
2. 14 · 452 Split the CDC into two separate agencies Needs Congress Not started
3. 14 · 453 Create a national epidemiological agency required by law to publish all data Needs Congress Not started
4. 14 · 455 Prohibit research using aborted fetal cells and baby body parts Needs Congress Not started
5. 14 · 458 Withdraw FDA approval of chemical abortion drugs Not started
6. 14 · 462 Block grant the NIH grants budget to the states Needs Congress Not started
7. 14 · 462 Abolish the NIH Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Not started
8. 14 · 465 Make Medicare Advantage the default enrollment option Needs Congress Not started
9. 14 · 465 Replace Medicare fee-for-service with value-based payments Needs Congress Not started
10. 14 · 465 Repeal the Medicare Shared Savings Program and the Inflation Reduction Act Needs Congress Not started
11. 14 · 465 Repeal the Medicare drug price negotiation program Needs Congress Not started
12. 14 · 466 Reform Medicaid financing with block grants or per capita caps Needs Congress Not started
13. 14 · 468 Add work requirements to Medicaid Not started
14. 14 · 472 Issue guidance that states may defund Planned Parenthood in Medicaid Not started
15. 14 · 474 Permanently codify the Hyde and Weldon amendments Needs Congress Not started
16. 14 · 475 Reverse the redefinition of sex across HHS and CMS programs Not started
17. 14 · 475 Announce nonenforcement of the CMS COVID-19 vaccine mandate Not started
18. 14 · 482 Eliminate the Head Start program and the Office of Head Start Needs Congress Not started
19. 14 · 483 Restore Trump religious and moral exemptions to the contraceptive mandate Not started
20. 14 · 491 Rescind the Biden Title X rule and reinstate the Trump Title X rule Not started
21. 14 · 495 Restore the Trump-era Section 1557 and Section 504 OCR regulations Not started

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