[A Navy Vet]

" Why not surgeon general, if anything?"

Why is there even such a cabinet post? Who really cares about some nobody with no influence prances around in some make-shift military uniform? The CDC director is enough.

[bankwalker]

Why is there even such a cabinet post?

To teach masturbation in schools?

[hinckley buzzard]

The Federal government has been involved in healthcare since 1798, when Congress established the Marine Service Hospital, the forerunner of the Public Health Service, the Supervising physician the forerunner of the Surgeon General.

We still have a uniformed PHS. Whether we still need it is debatable.