President-elect Donald Trump will press for major reforms to the trillion-dollar U.S. health care industry, a series of provocative, high-profile health care leadership nominations indicates.
Trump’s nominee for Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is a staunch critic of big pharma, vaccine schedules, chemical food additives, and more. Martin Makary, M.D., nominated to head the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), is noted for his contrarian views on pandemic lockdown policies, especially while he held a prominent position at Johns Hopkins Medical School. Makary recently wrote the book Blind Spots, in which he criticized “groupthink” in health care.
Trump nominated Jay Bhattacharya, M.D., Ph.D., to head of the National Institutes of Health. Bhattacharya of Stanford University and author of The Great Barrington Declaration has not only been a leading voice against lockdown policies but also government-led censorship during the pandemic. Bhattacharya was a keynote speaker, discussing the “Silicon Curtain” at the benefit dinner of The Heartland Institute, which co-publishes Health Care News.
Former Congressman Dave Weldon, M.D. (R-FL),…
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