6 key health policy areas to watch in the new year

Politico December 23, 2024
By Chelsea Cirruzzo and Ben Leonard

With David Lim and Declan Harty

Driving the Day

THE 2025 HEALTH AGENDA — The new year will likely bring major changes to health policy with Republican majorities in both chambers of Congress and President-elect Donald Trump in the White House.

Trump’s picks to lead key health care agencies have vowed to shake up the sector, with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — Trump’s pick to lead HHS — promising to reduce chronic disease. Trump’s choice of Kennedy has also led to broad questions about how the administration will approach vaccines.

Many of Trump’s other picks to head agencies — like TV personality and former heart surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz to lead CMS — are political outsiders with little or no...

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