Strategic Objective 1.1: Increase choice, affordability, and enrollment in high-quality healthcare coverage
Strategic Objective 1.2: Reduce costs, improve quality of healthcare services, and ensure access to safe medical devices and drugs
Strategic Objective 1.3: Expand equitable access to comprehensive, community-based, innovative, and culturally-competent healthcare services while addressing social determinants of health
Strategic Objective 1.4: Drive the integration of behavioral health into the healthcare system to strengthen and expand access to mental health and substance use disorder treatment and recovery services for individuals and families
Strategic Objective 1.5: Bolster the health workforce to ensure delivery of quality services and care
HHS works to protect and strengthen equitable access to high quality and affordable healthcare. Increasing choice, affordability and enrollment in high-quality healthcare coverage is a focus of the Department's efforts in addition to reducing costs, improving quality of healthcare services, and ensuring access to safe medical devices and drugs. HHS also works to expand equitable access to comprehensive, community-based, innovative, and culturally-competent healthcare services while addressing social determinants of health. The Department is driving the integration of behavioral health into the healthcare system to strengthen and expand access to mental health and substance use disorder treatment and recovery services for individuals and families. HHS also bolsters the health workforce to ensure delivery of quality services and care.
Related Executive Orders (EO) and White House Action Plans, Directives, and Memoranda:
- EO 13175: Consultation and Coordination With Indian Tribal Governments
- EO 13985: Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities through the Federal Government
- EO 13994: Ensuring a Data-Driven Response to COVID-19 and Future High-Consequence Public Health Threats
- EO 13995: Ensuring an Equitable Pandemic Response and Recovery
- EO 13996: Establishing the COVID-19 Pandemic Testing Board and Ensuring a Sustainable Public Health Workforce for COVID-19 and Other Biological Threats
- EO 13997: Improving and Expanding Access to Care and Treatments for COVID-19
- EO 13988: Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation
- EO 13999: Protecting Worker Health and Safety
- EO 14001: A Sustainable Public Health Supply Chain
- EO 14017: America's Supply Chains
- EO 14008: Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad
- EO 14009: Strengthening Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act
- EO 14020: Establishment of the White House Gender Policy Council
- EO 14036: Promoting Competition in the American Economy
- Memorandum on Protecting Women's Health at Home and Abroad
- Memorandum on Tribal Consultation and Strengthening Nation-to-Nation Relationships
- National Strategy for the COVID-19 Response and Pandemic Preparedness
- Path Out of the Pandemic: President Biden's COVID-19 Action Plan
Within HHS, the following divisions are working to achieve Strategic Goal 1: Administration for Community Living (ACL), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Indian Health Service (IHS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH), Office for Civil Rights (OCR), Office of Global Affairs (OGA), Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), and Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).
