Politico December 23, 2024
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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