Content created by Assistant Secretary for Financial Resources (ASFR)
Fiscal Year 2023
Released March, 2022
Objective 1.1: Increase choice, affordability, and enrollment in high-quality healthcare coverage
Objective 1.2: Reduce costs, improve quality of healthcare services, and ensure access to safe medical devices and drugs
Objective 1.3: Expand equitable access to comprehensive, community-based, innovative, and culturally-competent healthcare services, while addressing social determinants of health
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
Objective 1.5: Bolster the health workforce to ensure delivery of quality services and care
Strategic Goal 1: Protect and Strengthen Equitable Access to High Quality and Affordable Healthcare
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- and linguistically-appropriate 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.