Trump's 100 Days: Drowning the Government in the Bathtub (Do Not Resuscitate #393)

Trump and his team have instituted a radical overhaul of healthcare funding, regulatory oversight, and research by sidestepping normal procedure and even court orders while promoting the “unitary executive,” the theory that presidents are essentially monarchs, Congress is decorative, and judges shouldn’t interfere. I look at the systematic wrecking of health-related Federal operations while Trump's (and RFK Jr's) cronies clean up. 

Here are the links to all the articles mentioned: 

Dave Muoio, Noah Tong, Emma Beavins, Anastassia Gliadkovskaya & Paige Minemyer, “Trump’s first 100 days: A pulse check on healthcare,” Fierce Healthcare, Apr 30, 2025 https://bit.ly/43nbDry

Mackenzie Bean, “DOGE has access to 19 HHS systems,” Becker’s Hospital Review, Apr 22, 2025 https://bit.ly/4d7Zj1L

Apoorva Mandavilli & Roni Caryn Rabin, “Trump budget cuts funding for chronic disease prevention,” New York Times, May 2, 2025 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/health/trump-budget-cdc-chronic-conditions.html

Thomas Farley, “The cruelty of the OMB budget proposal: An advocacy guide for public health,” Healthscaping, May 1, 2025 https://bit.ly/42Q0Gi8

Sherry Glied & Richard G. Frank, “Trump Administration’s HHS cuts: Creating waste and inefficiency, not eliminating them,” Health Affairs, Apr 21, 2025 https://bit.ly/4iWJn3E

Arthur Allen, “Trump team’s $500 million bet on old vaccine technology puzzles scientists,” KFF Health News, May 5, 2025 https://bit.ly/3GJ5m0J

Rachana Pradhan, “Trump restores Title X funding for two anti-abortion states, wipes it out elsewhere,” KFF Health News, Apr 30, 2025

Donald G. McNeil Jr., “RFK Jr.’s view of autism is wrong—but profitable, Washington Post, May 1, 2025 https://bit.ly/3RWUXB0

Peter Lurie, “What does the future of food safety look like?” MedPage Today, May 2, 2025 https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second-opinions/115396?trw=no

Barbara Rodriguez, “With Medicaid cuts, Republicans target men in the name of protecting women,” The 19th, May 2, 2025 https://bit.ly/4iSZ0Jk

Stephan D. Fihn, David Atkins, Timothy O’Leary, “Veterans affairs research under threat,” JAMA Internal Medicine, Mar 28, 2025 https://bit.ly/4kftk2e

Multiple authors, “International doctors forgo U.S. medical meetings citing detention fears,” MedPage Today, Apr 30, 2025 https://bit.ly/3GN5FYn

Taylor Nichols, “The healthcare workforce is traumatized,” MedPage Today, Apr 30, 2025 https://bit.ly/4jDUnEi

Wendell Potter, “A playbook to protect insurers’ Medicaid ATM,” Health Care Un-covered, May 1, 2025 https://bit.ly/4lXIQkK

Wendell Potter, “Medicare scramble: Wall Street wants insurers to dump costly seniors,” Health Care Un-covered, May 5, 2025 https://bit.ly/4dbQi87

Department of Justice, “The United States files False Claims Act complaint against three national health insurance companies and three brokers alleging unlawful kickbacks and discrimination against disabled Americans,” May 1, 2025 https://bit.ly/4m8dbx1 (Full complaint: https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1398796/dl )

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