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American Health Gets a Pink Slip - KFF Health News

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The Department of Health and Human Services underwent an unprecedented purge this week .

Thousands of employees from the National Institutes of Health , the FDA , the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , and other agencies across the department were fired, placed on administrative leave, or offered transfers to remote Indian Health Service facilities in such places as New Mexico , Montana , and Alaska .

This week ’s panelists are Julie Rovner of KFF Health News , Rachel Cohrs Zhang of Bloomberg News , Sarah Karlin-Smith of the Pink Sheet and Lauren Weber of The Washington Post .