Trump’s surgeon general pick faces mounting GOP opposition
Add abortion and psychedelics to the list of reasons many Republicans oppose Casey Means.
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RFK Jr.’s followers will help the GOP in midterms, Kennedy adviser tells POLITICO’s Health Summit
Calley Means said the health secretary and Trump are working in “lockstep.”
Read full article →Mark Cuban is moving on from Kamala Harris
The billionaire investor who supported the former vice president in 2024 isn't planning to in 2028.
Read full article →Top drug lobbyist calls Trump’s efforts to codify his drug pricing deals 'the wrong policy prescription'
PhRMA CEO Stephen Ubl applauded the Trump administration for pressuring other countries to pay more, is against efforts to make its “most-favored-nation” agreements permanent
Read full article →Health care leaders sweat federal Medicaid, Obamacare changes at POLITICO Summit
“At some point or another, folks are going to lose coverage.”
Read full article →Oz unveils nationwide plan to tackle Medicaid fraud at POLITICO Summit
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will have to audit states “more aggressively” if they don't take the request seriously, Administrator Mehmet Oz said.
Read full article →Markey at POLITICO Summit: Ready for ‘battle’ with Trump on health care
The Massachusetts Democrat also called on Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to resign.
Read full article →Jayapal at POLITICO Summit: Medicare for All has never been more popular
The progressive pointed to Cuba's system, before the oil embargo, as superior to America's.
Read full article →Set on ousting Cassidy, MAHA faces first midterms test
Movement leaders' efforts to sway the midterms, starting with defeating Sen. Bill Cassidy, will help determine whether MAHA outlasts Trump
Read full article →Now it’s Republicans blaming American companies for inflation
Trump Cabinet members RFK Jr. and Brooke Rollins joined GOP lawmakers Thursday in pillorying onetime allies.
Read full article →Merger to create nation's largest suicide prevention nonprofit
Should their merger close, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and The Jed Foundation would have an annual operating budget of about $75 million and net assets of around $140 million.
Read full article →Oz previews new plan to push states toward revalidating Medicaid providers
CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz on Tuesday previewed the agency's next steps in its effort to root out fraud, waste and abuse in Medicaid.
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