Trump Further Politicizes Science – KFF Health News

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A new decree by President Donald Trump has potentially wide implications for the future of the federal research company by transferring direct financing decisions far from career professionals to people appointed politicians.

And an armed man, who would have been dissatisfied with Cèvres vaccines, attacked the siege of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, stressing how much and more inflammatory rhetoric of health criticism endangered public health workforce.

This week’s panelists are Julie Rovner from Kff Health News, Sarah Karlin-Smith of The Pink Sheet, Shefali Luthra of the 19th and Alice Miranda Ollstein from Politico.

Among the take -out dishes of this week’s episode:

• Trump’s decree highlights the tension between the way in which the congress has led the funding of the federal sciences and what the administration can do to modify this course. The congress traditionally set the parameters and the experts made judgments to move forward. The National Institutes of Health, considered a jewel of the American crown, are in particular to remain apolitical. But this step opens the door to concerns about the cancellation of subsidies and adds to the growing uncertainty of scientific research. Even investors are starting to hold back. Training effects could be much more important than Trump administration does not provide.
• Many members of CDC staff blame the secretary of health and social services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other agencies for having attributed the negative climate that led to last week’s attack. Kennedy seems to have doubled on his language, however, announcing decisions and policies that continue to fuel the opposition and the hesitation of vaccines.
• This week, Kennedy also made the unprecedented decision to call on the annals of internal medicine, a medical newspaper, to withdraw a study which revealed that the aluminum adjuvant in many infant vaccines did not cause any harm. The journal refused to withdraw the study on the basis of the scientifically unfounded affirmations of Kennedy according to which the additive was harmful.
• No more impact emerging about the law on the scanning budget supported by the GOP this summer. The Republicans argued that its Medicadid cuts – most of which will only be triggered after the mid -term elections – would only affect waste, fraud, abuses and people who are not entitled to coverage. In reality, the sprawling nature of Medicaid already becomes clear while institutions – ranging from hospitals to community health centers – are preparing for cuts that could limit their ability to provide services.
• The CDC reported this week that Americans eat less ultra-transformed foods but that it is still a large part of the American diet. The Trump administration has spoken to a big game to solve this public health problem, but seemed to hate to demand that the food industry do anything. Much of the administration’s efforts have focused on “voluntary” changes. Former FDA chief David Kessler has highlighted this week a legal regulatory way and that the administration could force more measures.

This week also, Rovner Interview Aaron Carroll, President and CEO of the Research Group on Health Services Academyhealth, on how to restore public confidence in public health.

In addition, for “additional credit”, the panelists suggest that the stories of health policy they read this week, they think you should also read:

Julie Rovner: The “veterans” of Propublica at risk under Trump, because hundreds of doctors and nurses reject work in hospitals VA “, by David Armstrong, Eric Umansky and Vernal Coleman.

Alice Miranda Ollstein: The New York Times-KFF Health News’ “Why young Americans fear 26 years old: health insurance chaos”, by Elisabeth Rosenthal and Hannah Norman.

Sarah Karlin-Smith: The New York Times Ohio Farm community is the Mecca of the “Maha Mom”, by Caroline Kitchener.

Shefali Luthra: “Inside The American Medical Association of the American Association Shift in Washington”, by Theresa Gaffney.

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