If confirmed, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. holds the keys to the health of the nation’s 72 million children. In a comprehensive agenda called “Making America Healthy Again for Children,” First Focus on Children urges the prospective cabinet member to protect and enhance Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), which together insure half of all U.S. children, improve infant and maternal health, upgrade pediatric emergency and cancer care, and use his position to address the systemic challenges facing children, from inadequate access to health care to the impacts of poverty, neglect, and inequality. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has long been the cornerstone of the federal government’s response to these challenges, overseeing programs including Medicaid, theChildren’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), the Affordable Care Act (ACA), communityhealth centers, maternal child health programs, mental health and substance abuse, public health, Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF), child welfare programs, early childhood programs like Head Start, and runaway and homeless youth programs, which together have transformed the lives of millions of children. Read Making America Healthy Again for Children.