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Trump Takes Steps to Protect Security of U.S. Drug Market
To ensure a “resilient domestic supply chain for essential medicines,” President Trump issued an executive order (EO) directing the Department of Health and Human Services “to develop a list of approximately 26 drugs critical to national health and security.” The August 13 EO also calls for the development of a “repository to receive and maintain…
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Pediatric Group Calls for Elimination of Nonmedical Vaccine Exemptions
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) released a report recommending a nationwide ban on nonmedical exemptions from vaccines. The report, published in the August 2025 issue of Pediatrics, argues the geographical clustering of unvaccinated children results in larger communities with “insufficient” vaccination rates for disease prevention, causing “greater likelihood of disease outbreaks.” In states where…
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Judge Blocks Use of Medicaid Data for Immigration Enforcement
A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to stop sharing Medicaid data with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). HHS began sharing Medicaid data in June 2025. On July 4, President Donald Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which stops federal funds intended for law-abiding Americans from…
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Expanding Medicaid Hasn’t Improved Health Care – Commentary
The media are clamoring over the Congressional Budget Office’s estimate that 16 million people will lose health insurance by 2034 because of the Trump administration’s policies—10.9 million due to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act alone. Most of the news coverage misses three important details. While it’s true that many people will lose insurance, that…
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Mandatory Charity Care Is Unconstitutional Taking of Property, Hospitals
Several hospital systems are considering an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court after the New Jersey Supreme Court rejected their claim that inadequate compensation for charity care was an unconstitutional taking of private property without just compensation. New Jersey’s charity care program prohibits hospitals from billing patients who qualify for charity care, which the state…
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Democrats Fight to Extend Obamacare Costly Middle-Class Subsidies – Commentary
Democrats in Congress are desperately trying to keep Obamacare on life support. The latest scare tactic is from the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF), which estimates that Obamacare premiums will rise 114 percent without extending the so-called enhanced subsidies. The following is from a CNBC article: “In 2021, the American Rescue Plan Act, a pandemic relief law, temporarily…
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Urban Hospitals Pose as Rural for Federal Money, Study Finds
A growing number of urban hospitals are reclassifying themselves as both urban and rural to reap financial benefits Congress intended for rural hospitals only, a new study has found. “In 2016, in response to two federal court decisions, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services began allowing geographically urban hospitals to be dually classified as…
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HHS Reinstates Child Vaccine Task Force
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) reinstated a federal task force on pediatric vaccine safety after a hiatus of nearly 30 years. National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Jay Bhattacharya, M.D., will chair the reinstated task force alongside senior members of the NIH, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the Centers…
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Trump Takes Steps to Protect Security of U.S. Drug Market
To ensure a “resilient domestic supply chain for essential medicines,” President Trump issued an executive order (EO) directing the Department of Health and Human Services “to develop a list of approximately 26 drugs critical to national health and security.” The August 13 EO also calls for the development of a “repository to receive and maintain…
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Kennedy Shakes Up CDC Leadership Over Vaccine Safety, Efficacy Proof
Major changes are underway at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) following President Trump’s and Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr.’s dismissal of director Susan Monarez and the subsequent resignations of four senior officials in protest over the removal of Monarez. Resigning were the chief medical officer and deputy director…
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