RFK Jr. Seeks to Free Doctors From Useless Barriers

The Department of Health and Human Services is launching a review of unnecessary regulations slowing down the Food and Drug Administration.

“To Make America Healthy Again, we must free our doctors and caregivers to do what they do best—prevent and treat chronic disease,” HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy said Tuesday morning. “We cannot allow their time and talent to be wasted on bureaucratic red tape and paperwork.”

HHS and the FDA are pursuing a public Request for Information to identify and eliminate outdated or unnecessary regulations.

The move implements President Donald Trump’s executive order “Unleashing Prosperity Through Deregulation,” which required every federal agency issuing a regulation to identify 10 potential regulations for recission, or to be eliminated and overturned.

HHS will implement the “10-to-1” deregulatory policy, as well as a regulatory cost cap, meaning the total cost of all new regulations in fiscal year 2025 must be significantly less than zero.

The order’s application goes beyond formal regulations, applying to guidance documents, memoranda, policy statements, and similar directives.

In pursuit of transparency, HHS announced it will release annual reports sharing estimated regulatory costs and the specific rules being offset.