Politico April 2, 2025
Republicans painted a picture of a corrupt, broken system. Democrats said Trump’s cuts were putting millions of lives at risk.
President Donald Trump’s allies and adversaries battled over the best ways to improve the U.S. health care system at POLITICO’s Health Care Summit on Wednesday, highlighting deep divides over the upheaval the administration has unleashed.
The partisans sparred after Trump dismissed thousands of health agency employees, launched a massive restructuring of the nation’s health agencies, and proposed stripping billions from university research budgets.
Perhaps the most polarizing speaker was Calley Means, a fixture in HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “Make America Healthy Again” movement. Means defended the Trump administration’s deep cuts and attacked the medical establishment — which he...
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