Trump Quietly Gutted Agency Best-Known for Work on Curbing Hospital Infections

https://truthout.org/articles/trump-quietly-gutted-agency-best-known-for-work-on-curbing-hospital-infections/

The Trump administration has effectively shut down most of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s activities, closing the spigot on federal funding estimated to have saved thousands of lives and billions of dollars over the past 27 years by improving medical practice. In a July 15 letter, the small Department of Health and Human Services agency known as AHRQ told researchers it was…

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Vince@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 38d (2 replies)

Usually I find myself in line with assuming incompetence instead of malice, but every article like this makes me question it. They can't be this incompetent, there has to be a little if not a lot of malice.

Malyca@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 38d (1 reply)

He's trying to punish us

TheFrogThatFlies@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 38d

Not punish. If we're too busy fighting for our lives, there's less chances we have to coordinate a revolution.