Monitor whether the deputy secretary recuses from fertility industry policy decisions and track any regulatory changes benefiting their former industry connections.
This represents classic regulatory capture with a deputy HHS secretary having financial ties to an industry they will oversee, scoring moderately on institutional capture (3) and corruption/self-dealing (3). The conflict of interest is real but reversible through recusal or removal, and while it follows a familiar revolving-door pattern, it's not a novel authoritarian tactic. The B-score is elevated by media-friendliness and pattern-matching to familiar corruption narratives, but lacks strategic distraction markers (low intentionality score of 3/15).