MedPage Today November 8, 2024
Joyce Frieden

— Orders restoring WHO membership, aiding reproductive health access likely on the chopping block

Passing laws to overturn Democrats’ healthcare initiatives might take a while, but there are plenty of Biden administration health policies that the Trump administration may undo in relatively short order, according to health policy experts.

Membership in the World Health Organization (WHO) and participation in the Paris climate accords — two international groups Trump also withdrew the U.S. from in his first term and that Biden then reinstated — are two examples of Biden policies that Trump could rescind fairly quickly, Leighton Ku, PhD, MPH, director of the Center for Health Policy Research at George Washington University, said in a phone interview.

“Those are things Trump...

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