Inside RFK Jr.’s Unprecedented Reset of HHS: David Mansdoerfer

American Thought Leaders

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🗓️ 13 April 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

David Mansdoerfer served as deputy assistant secretary for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) during the first Trump administration. Now, he’s chief strategist at the Independent Medical Alliance and describes himself as the MAGA-MAHA Connector.

“We have seen a complete reset of a federal agency within 60 days of Secretary Kennedy getting there. To me, that is unprecedented, and it is going to be one of the most impactful approaches to public health and the health economy in the United States,” he says. “We have not won this fight. We’ve begun the fight. And we have industry forces, which I would say [have] unlimited money, that are going to try to do everything to protect their bottom line, but also limit good policy ideas of a Secretary Kennedy and a President Trump.”

What reforms are already underway since Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took over HHS? What pushback has he faced? And will the administration be able to reconcile and even merge the disparate agendas of the MAGA and MAHA movements?

“You basically get to put an entirely new, fresh face of career leaders that are aligned to the president’s agenda and the secretary’s agenda in positions of authority that could be and will be longer lasting than just this administration,” says Mansdoerfer. “Even in terms of the unknown, it is better to have leadership that’s willing to take these bold actions than it is to continually lead Americans down a poor health outcome path.”

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0:00.0	We have seen a complete reset of a federal agency within 60 days of Secretary Kennedy getting there.
0:09.3	To me, that is unprecedented, and it is going to be one of the most impactful approaches to public health and the health economy in the United States.
0:19.0	David Mansdorfer served as HHS Deputy Assistant Secretary
0:23.0	during the first Trump administration.
0:25.3	Now he's chief strategist at the Independent Medical Alliance
0:28.9	and describes himself as the MAGA-Maha connector.
0:32.0	We have not won this fight.
0:33.3	We've begun the fight and we have industry forces
0:37.2	that are going to try to do everything
0:39.4	to limit good policy ideas of a Secretary Kennedy and a President Trump.
0:45.8	What reforms are already underway since Secretary Kennedy took over the Department of Health
0:51.2	and Human Services? What pushback has he faced?
0:54.3	And will the administration be able to reconcile
0:56.8	or even merge the disparate agendas of the MAGA and MAHA movements?
1:01.1	Even in the terms of the unknown,
1:03.8	it is better to have leadership that's willing to take these bold actions
1:08.5	than it is to continually lead Americans down a poor health outcome path.
1:13.6	This is American Thought Leaders, and I'm Yanya Kellogg.
1:18.6	David Mansdorfer, such a pleasure to have you on American Thought Leaders.
1:21.6	Thank you.
1:23.6	At HHS, what's being described as a historic opportunity, perhaps a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, is in play.
1:32.4	Bobby Kennedy, Jr. has been made HHS secretary, and there's a number of other, what you would call disruptors in the system, in the sub-agencies now.
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