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Health Care
What this site holds on health care, taken from every part of it: the chapters of Project 2025 assigned to this subject, the actions recorded against those proposals, every order, presidential document, agency rule and public law whose own title carries one of this subject's words, and the measures the chamber voted on that the site already groups under it.
In plain English
This page is about health care.
It gathers what the site holds on it. Parts of the book. Orders and rules. Laws. Votes in Congress.
18
proposals
9
actions recorded
12
executive orders
1
other documents
14
agency rules
2
public laws
3
measures voted on
What Project 2025 proposes
Every proposal indexed from chapter 14 (Department of Health and Human Services). A proposal in another chapter that touches this subject is not here.
- Treat abortion and euthanasia as outside the definition of health careChapter 14 · p. 450 · the document says “must”
- Repeal family policies and replace them with support for married nuclear familiesChapter 14 · p. 451 · the document says “should”
- Impose a long cooling off period on drug regulatorsChapter 14 · p. 452 · the document says “should”
- Split the CDC into two separate agenciesChapter 14 · p. 452 · the document says “should”
- Bar CDC guidance from telling people what they should doChapter 14 · p. 454 · the document says “must”
- Require every state to report detailed abortion statisticsChapter 14 · p. 455 · the document says “should”
- End CDC collection of gender identity dataChapter 14 · p. 456 · the document says “should”
- Restore in-person dispensing requirements for the abortion pillChapter 14 · p. 458 · the document says “should”
- End federal funding for embryonic stem cell and fetal tissue researchChapter 14 · p. 460 · the document says “should”
- Abolish the NIH equity and diversity office and end conference quotasChapter 14 · p. 462 · the document says “should”
- Fund studies on the negative effects of gender transition careChapter 14 · p. 462 · the document says “should”
- Impose term limits at NIH and consider block granting its research budgetChapter 14 · p. 462 · the document says “should”
- Restore conscience protections for medical practitionersChapter 14 · p. 464 · the document says “needs to”
- Pay the same for a procedure wherever it is performedChapter 14 · p. 464 · the document says “should”
- Repeal the Medicare drug price negotiation programChapter 14 · p. 465 · the document says “should”
- Add work requirements to MedicaidChapter 14 · p. 468 · the document says “should”
- End taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood and other abortion providersChapter 14 · p. 471 · the document says “should”
- Withhold Medicaid funds from states requiring abortion coverageChapter 14 · p. 472 · the document says “should”
What has happened against those proposals
Actions this site has already recorded against the proposals above, with the note that says how far each one goes. Nothing new is matched here: every pairing is the one on the proposal's own page.
Partly matches
Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing
January 20, 2025 · 90 FR 8339
In plain English
This order shuts down diversity programs across the government. It calls them a form of bias that the law does not allow.
- Abolish the NIH equity and diversity office and end conference quotas: partly matches. EO 14151 orders every agency head, within 60 days, to terminate all DEI and DEIA offices and positions, which covers the NIH Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion. The order never names NIH or that office, leaves each closure to the agency to the maximum extent allowed by law, and says nothing about the conference sponsorship practice the passage also asks to end. The candidate the search ranked first, EO 14185, ends DEI programs inside the Armed Forces only.
Partly matches
Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government
January 20, 2025 · 90 FR 8615
In plain English
This order says there are two sexes only. It says that cannot change. Federal money must not go to work on gender identity.
- End CDC collection of gender identity data: partly matches. Addresses the chapter's subject. The chapter asked specifically that the Centers for Disease Control end its collection of gender identity data; this order sets a government-wide policy on recognizing two sexes and on federal funds rather than naming that data collection.
Partly matches
Enforcing the Hyde Amendment
January 24, 2025 · 90 FR 8751
In plain English
A rule bars federal money for most abortions. It is named for a member of Congress. This order tells agencies to enforce it.
- Treat abortion and euthanasia as outside the definition of health care: partly matches. EO 14182 sets a policy of ending the use of federal money to fund or promote elective abortion and revokes the two 2022 orders on abortion access. It acts on funding rather than on how health care is defined, it directs OMB guidance rather than reorienting HHS programs around the goal, and it does not mention euthanasia, which is half of what the passage asks.
Partly matches
Protecting Children From Chemical and Surgical Mutilation
January 28, 2025 · 90 FR 8771
In plain English
This order is about care for children who question their sex. It bars federal money for drugs and surgery for them.
- Fund studies on the negative effects of gender transition care: partly matches. Section 3 of EO 14187 orders HHS to publish, within 90 days, a review of the existing literature on best practices for promoting the health of children who assert gender dysphoria, and to use all available methods to improve the quality of data guiding their care. That reaches the study half of the proposal by a different route: it commissions a literature review and better data rather than funding studies of the short and long term negative effects of the interventions, and it does not mention studying desistance among young people given counseling without medical or social intervention.
Partly matches
Lowering Drug Prices by Once Again Putting Americans First
April 15, 2025 · 90 FR 16441
In plain English
This order is about drug prices. It tells agencies to press for lower costs for patients.
- Repeal the Medicare drug price negotiation program: partly matches. EO 14273 keeps the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program and directs the Secretary to propose guidance for initial price applicability year 2028 that improves transparency, prioritizes drugs with high costs to Medicare, and minimizes negative effects of the maximum fair price on innovation, and to work with Congress to align small molecule drugs with biologics. That matches the chapter's fallback, implementing the program prudently and minimizing its harmful effects. It is not the first ask: the program stands, and only Congress can repeal it.
Partly matches
To provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14
July 4, 2025 · 139 Stat. 72
In plain English
This is a large budget and tax law. It changes taxes, spending and many programs at once.
- End taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers: partly matches. Section 71113 of Public Law 119-21 bars federal Medicaid money from paying a prohibited entity for one year, defined as a tax exempt essential community provider mainly engaged in family planning that provides abortions outside cases of rape, incest or danger to the woman's life and whose Medicaid spending topped $800,000 in fiscal year 2023. That uses the Medicaid channel the chapter names. The bar lasts one year rather than ending the funding, it reaches only entities meeting all four tests rather than all abortion providers, it redirects nothing to other health centers, it is not the Protecting Life and Taxpayers Act, and the Idaho, South Carolina and Tennessee waivers are left unresolved. EO 14182, the top candidate, ends federal funding of elective abortion but leaves payments to providers for other services untouched.
Partly matches
Medicare Program: Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment Systems; Quality Reporting Programs; Overall Hospital Quality Star Rating; Hospital Price Transparency; and Notice of Closure of a Teaching Hospital and Opportunity To Apply for Available Slots
November 25, 2025 · 90 FR 53448
In plain English
This sets what Medicare pays for care that does not need a hospital stay.
- Pay the same for a procedure wherever it is performed: partly matches. The calendar year 2026 outpatient payment rule finalizes phasing out the inpatient only list over three years, beginning with the removal of 285 mostly musculoskeletal services for 2026, and adds 271 of those codes to the ambulatory surgical center covered procedures list. That is the step the passage names. The elimination is phased rather than immediate, and taking a service off the list changes where Medicare will pay for it rather than making the payment the same in a physician's office, a clinic and a hospital, which is the wider site neutrality the proposal asks for.
Recorded against 2 proposals here
Making further consolidated appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026, and for other purposes
February 3, 2026 · 140 Stat. 173
In plain English
This is a spending law. It funds more of the government through September 2026.
- End federal funding for embryonic stem cell and fetal tissue research: partly matches. Section 508 of Public Law 119-75, enacted February 3, 2026, provides that none of the funds made available in the act may be used for the creation of a human embryo or embryos for research purposes, or for research in which a human embryo or embryos are destroyed, discarded or knowingly subjected to risk of injury or death greater than that allowed for research on fetuses in utero, and defines human embryo to include any organism derived by fertilization, parthenogenesis, cloning or any other means from human gametes or human diploid cells. That reaches the destruction the passage objects to and, through the definition, the cloning research the chapter separately asks be barred. The fit breaks down in that the section does not end funding for research using human embryonic stem cell lines already derived or close the registry the chapter names, says nothing about fetal tissue from elective abortions or the ethics advisory committee, bars the use of funds rather than the research itself, and reaches only the money made available in that one act.
- Withhold Medicaid funds from states requiring abortion coverage: partly matches. Section 507(d) of Public Law 119-75 provides that none of the funds made available in the act may be made available to a federal agency or program, or to a state or local government, if that agency, program or government subjects any institutional or individual health care entity to discrimination on the basis that the entity does not provide, pay for, provide coverage of, or refer for abortions, and defines health care entity to include a health insurance plan. That is the provision the chapter builds its proposal on, and it makes loss of federal money the consequence for a state. The fit breaks down in that it is a condition carried in an appropriations act rather than a decision by the department to withdraw funds, it reaches the funds made available in that act rather than Medicaid by name and sets no 10 percent figure, it turns on discrimination against a health care entity rather than on a state requiring abortion coverage as such, and nothing indexed here applies it to any state.
Partly matches
Medicaid Program; Community Engagement Requirement for Certain Individuals
June 3, 2026 · 91 FR 33348
In plain English
Some adults on Medicaid must work or train to keep it. This sets out how.
- Add work requirements to Medicaid: partly matches. This interim final rule implements the Medicaid community engagement requirement enacted as section 71119 of Public Law 119-21. It sets which applicants and beneficiaries must show qualifying work, study or service, the exceptions and exclusions, how states verify activity, what happens on noncompliance, and a January 1, 2027 deadline for states. That answers the work requirement half of the proposal. It does nothing about the rest, which asks for a personal option to buy coverage outside Medicaid, health savings account style arrangements, removal of benefit mandates for able-bodied recipients, or stronger eligibility and asset tests. None of the documents the search offered for this proposal is about work requirements.
Executive orders
Orders whose title carries one of this subject's words. The word is printed beside each one.
- Delivering Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations for AmericansEO 14420 · August 10, 2026 · “Vaccine”
- Realigning United States Core Childhood Vaccine Recommendations With Best Practices From Peer, Developed CountriesEO 14407 · May 29, 2026 · “Vaccine”
- Modifying Duties Addressing the Synthetic Opioid Supply Chain in the People's Republic of ChinaEO 14357 · November 4, 2025 · “Opioid”
- Delivering Most-Favored-Nation Prescription Drug Pricing to American PatientsEO 14297 · May 12, 2025 · “Prescription”
- Further Amendment to Duties Addressing the Synthetic Opioid Supply Chain in the People's Republic of China as Applied to Low-Value ImportsEO 14256 · April 2, 2025 · “Opioid”
- Further Amendment to Duties Addressing the Synthetic Opioid Supply Chain in the People's Republic of ChinaEO 14228 · March 3, 2025 · “Opioid”
- Making America Healthy Again by Empowering Patients With Clear, Accurate, and Actionable Healthcare Pricing InformationEO 14221 · February 25, 2025 · “Health”
- Keeping Education Accessible and Ending COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates in SchoolsEO 14214 · February 14, 2025 · “Vaccine”
- Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again CommissionEO 14212 · February 13, 2025 · “Health”
- Amendment to Duties Addressing the Synthetic Opioid Supply Chain in the People's Republic of ChinaEO 14200 · February 5, 2025 · “Opioid”
- Imposing Duties To Address the Synthetic Opioid Supply Chain in the People's Republic of ChinaEO 14195 · February 1, 2025 · “Opioid”
- Withdrawing the United States From the World Health OrganizationEO 14155 · January 20, 2025 · “Health”
Proclamations, memoranda and the rest
Everything else the President signed whose title carries one of these words.
- National Mental Health Awareness Month, 2025Proclamation · May 5, 2025 · “Health”
Agency rules
Final rules that name an executive order indexed here and whose title carries one of these words.
- Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; Temporary Moratoria on Certain Agent and Broker Registration To Participate in the ExchangesHealth and Human Services Department · September 23, 2026 · “Patient”
- Medicaid Program; Prohibition on Federal Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program Funding for Sex-Rejecting Procedures Furnished to ChildrenHealth and Human Services Department, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · August 13, 2026 · “Medicaid”
- Rescinding Portions of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Title VI Regulations To Align With the Statutory Text and Conform to Executive Order 14281Health and Human Services Department, Office of the Secretary · July 24, 2026 · “Health”
- Medicaid Program; Community Engagement Requirement for Certain IndividualsHealth and Human Services Department, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · June 3, 2026 · “Medicaid”
- Medicare Program; Alternative Payment Model Updates and the Increasing Organ Transplant Access (IOTA) ModelHealth and Human Services Department, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · June 1, 2026 · “Medicare”
- Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, HHS Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters for 2027; and Basic Health ProgramHealth and Human Services Department, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Office of the Secretary · May 20, 2026 · “Patient”
- Rescission of Conservation and Landscape Health RuleInterior Department, Land Management Bureau · May 12, 2026 · “Health”
- Medicare Program; Contract Year 2027 and Certain Contract Year 2026 Policy and Technical Changes to the Medicare Advantage Program, Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Program, and Medicare Cost Plan ProgramHealth and Human Services Department, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · April 6, 2026 · “Medicare”
- Fourth Temporary Extension of COVID-19 Telemedicine Flexibilities for Prescription of Controlled MedicationsJustice Department, Drug Enforcement Administration, Health and Human Services Department · December 31, 2025 · “Prescription”
- Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Calendar Year 2026 Home Health Prospective Payment System (HH PPS) Rate Update; Requirements for the HH Quality Reporting Program and the HH Value-Based Purchasing Expanded Model; Durable Medical Equipment, Prosthetics, Orthotics, and Supplies (DMEPOS) Competitive Bidding Program Updates; DMEPOS Accreditation Requirements; Provider Enrollment; and Other Medicare and Medicaid PoliciesHealth and Human Services Department, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · December 2, 2025 · “Medicare”
- Medicare Program: Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment Systems; Quality Reporting Programs; Overall Hospital Quality Star Rating; Hospital Price Transparency; and Notice of Closure of a Teaching Hospital and Opportunity To Apply for Available SlotsHealth and Human Services Department, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Office of the Secretary · November 25, 2025 · “Medicare”
- Medicare and Medicaid Programs; CY 2026 Payment Policies Under the Physician Fee Schedule and Other Changes to Part B Payment and Coverage Policies; Medicare Shared Savings Program Requirements; and Medicare Prescription Drug Inflation Rebate ProgramHealth and Human Services Department, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · November 5, 2025 · “Medicare”
- Medicare Program; Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems for Acute Care Hospitals (IPPS) and the Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System and Policy Changes and Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 Rates; Changes to the FY 2025 IPPS Rates Due to Court Decision; Requirements for Quality Programs; and Other Policy Changes; Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Electronic Prescribing, Real-Time Prescription Benefit and Electronic Prior AuthorizationHealth and Human Services Department, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Office of the Secretary · August 4, 2025 · “Medicare”
- Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; Marketplace Integrity and AffordabilityHealth and Human Services Department · June 25, 2025 · “Patient”
Public laws
Public laws of this Congress whose short title carries one of these words.
- Reauthorize certain programs that provide for opioid use disorder prevention, treatment, and recoveryPublic Law 119-44 · December 1, 2025 · “opioid”
- Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act of 2025Public Law 119-69 · January 14, 2026 · “Health”
Roll call votes
Measures the House or Senate took a final vote on, kept in the grouping the site already publishes at how votes are grouped, which covers final-passage questions only.
- H R 21Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act
- H R 498Do No Harm in Medicaid Act
- H R 6703Lower Health Care Premiums for All Americans Act
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