Joe Biden arranges to name his health team as pandemic rages on

Joe Biden arranges to name his health team as pandemic rages on

W D.C - One of the next moves for elected leader Joe Biden: recruiting his superior health officials as the coronavirus pandemic rages on. It is hard to imagine more significant choices. 

Already, one of the candidates running to head the Department of Health and Social Services is no longer on the list. New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham was offered another cabinet job - that of the Home Department - and turned it down, according to a person familiar with Joe Biden's transition. This person spoke on condition of anonymity so that he could talk about internal discussions. Ms. Lujan Grisham's office did not comment.

Biden has planned to publicise his picks next week. This individual should retain "the assurance of the president, the capacity to work collective across ruler-ship, credibility in the health community and the ability to work with states," said the former secretary of health. And Social Services Mike Leavitt, who served under Republican President George W. Bush.

Former United States public health administrator Vivek Murthy, who co-leads Mr. Biden's coronavirus task force, is notably in the race. Mr. Murthy is known as a gentle person who seeks consensus. He recently wrote a book on the human cost of loneliness, an issue that is more widely recognized in this era of COVID-19.

The candidacy of Governor of Rhode Island Gina Raimondo was also under consideration, but the principal concerned made it clear on Thursday that she would not be Joe Biden's next Secretary of Health and Human Services.

Alongside his Secretary of Health, Joe Biden is expected to appoint a high-level White House adviser to coordinate the government's broad response to the coronavirus. Vaccines developed under the Trump administration will be delivered by the Biden administration, a mammoth task that risks logistical challenges. Democratic health standards experts state the favoured successor is executive Jeff Zients, an economic adviser in Barack Obama's White House who was instrumental in rescuing HealthCare.gov after its disastrous launch in 2013.

Mr. Joe Biden is also reportedly close to appointing a commissioner for the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and a director of the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Healthcare will be an important issue for the Biden presidency even when vaccines have defused the COVID-19 crisis, Leavitt said. Solving Medicare's financial problems will become an urgent priority before the end of the first term. The Parliamentary Funding Office concludes that Medicare's huge eager care trust budget will not be able to cover costs projected in 2024.

"However, if this is the scenario, the team will have no choice but to deal with it during regulations in 2021 or 2022," he related.

In the interim, millions of individuals still don’t have admittance to affordable insurance coverage. And racial and ethnic disparities in health remain a source of preventable suffering. “Individual utility programs go through the (Administration of Health),” Leavitt concluded.