Behavioral Health Business January 2, 2025
Time often helps clarify things. But when it comes to the federal regulatory outlook, time hasn’t helped one bit.
Since the election of Donald Trump to a second term, I’ve been looking for signs that will reveal the new administration’s behavioral health priorities. But that hasn’t shown up. Unlike a typical presidency, the second Trump administration is coming in living up to its outsider cred — without all the whitepapers, agendas, policy reveals, etc.
Assuming Trump continues to be Trump-esque, it’s unlikely that we will see a concise and obvious approach to policy and governing. As we saw during his previous administration, Trump was herky-jerky at best and often beset by legal and administrative missteps that got in the way...