Conclusion 2: “that the federal entity responsible for reporting health statistics should be firewalled from the entity setting policy due to concerns of real or perceived systematic bias in errors.”

While the US has theoretically good separation of powers between branches, something it is not good at is separation of concerns within the executive.

This is similar to how the FAA both regulates air travel and also runs ATC — a conflict of interest. Ideally the regulatory body would be separate from the ATC to remove this issue.

Edit: missing word.