As the Senate prepares for Thursday’s confirmation hearing for Surgeon General nominee Casey Means, Dr. Jeffrey A. Singer, senior fellow at the Cato Institute and practicing surgeon, is available for comment.

Singer recently co-authored “Unnecessary Relics: The Surgeon General and the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps,” a new Cato policy analysis that challenges the continued relevance of the Surgeon General’s office.

“With the eventual Surgeon General confirmation hearings sure to stir heated and divisive arguments, it would serve the public well if Congress were to ask, ‘Why does the United States have a Surgeon General?’ and ‘Does the country even need one?’” said Singer.

“The Public Health Service Commissioned Corps should be eliminated, and any essential functions it performs should be transferred to other agencies,” the authors write.

Read the full analysis: https://​www​.cato​.org/​p​o​l​i​c​y​-​a​n​a​l​y​s​i​s​/​u​n​n​e​c​e​s​s​a​r​y​-​r​elics

For media inquiries or interview requests with Dr. Singer, please contact Emily Salamon at esalamon@​cato.​org