Two of My Favorite Federal Agencies Are on the Chopping Block

How does this apply to meeting the needs of the gifted, you ask?

Deborah Ruf, PhD
Age of Awareness
Published in
7 min readNov 25, 2024

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What is The Federal Department of Health and Human Services?

It is the sprawling agency responsible for administering millions of Americans’ health insurance, approving drugs and medical supplies, regulating food and responding to infectious-disease outbreaks.

At this point in my life and career, I am in favor of centralized programs, information, and research that can be disseminated to the states from federal departments run by those trained in the fields they study and cover. That’s why it is better and more efficient — not wasteful or over-priced “paper-pushers” as too many seem to claim — because the best and the brightest in both their training and their uncanny intelligence to think outside the box and follow scientific protocol centers such people into an effective network.

“Americans who relied most on Trump for COVID-19 news among least likely to be vaccinated,” said the Pew Research Center. He changed his mind after his presidency and even sat for ads encouraging people to get vaccinated. https://pewrsr.ch/3ELu76N. And this is important. We should all be able to change our minds when we receive information…

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Deborah Ruf, PhD
Deborah Ruf, PhD

Written by Deborah Ruf, PhD

High Intelligence Specialist & Writer, Dr. Ruf writes about highly intelligent people from birth to very old age. www.fivelevelsofgifted.com

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