The following article by Oliver WIllis was posted on the ShareBlue.com website July 28, 2018:
An office that is key to evaluating and implementing U.S. health care policy has been repeatedly pushing out bad information to aid Trump’s attack on Obamacare.
Trump administration officials running a key office within the health department have been caught manipulating studies and reports in an effort to undermine Obamacare, support the administration’s anti-refugee stance, and push an anti-abortion agenda.
According to a new Politico report, staff say “the political pressures to tailor facts to fit Trump’s message have been unprecedented.”
The office of the assistant secretary for planning and evaluation (ASPE) within the Health and Human Services (HHS) department traditionally works to track the effects of health care programs and to help inform the public on health care issues.