Health Care News, Analysis and Opinion from POLITICO
- Here’s another sign Musk’s power is waningby By Danny Nguyen on April 10, 2025 at 4:57 pm
The National Institutes of Health is the latest agency to break from Trump’s billionaire adviser.
- The surprising pair fighting Medicaid cutsby By Kelly Hooper and Daniel Payne on April 10, 2025 at 2:00 pm
Republicans are seeking billions in savings from the insurance program for low-income people to pay for tax cuts.
- Cash-strapped states panic over end of Obamacare subsidiesby By Kelly Hooper on April 9, 2025 at 2:00 pm
The looming possibility of slashing Medicaid spending and not extending ACA subsidies has prompted a legislative scramble from Sacramento to Annapolis.
- Kennedy says he plans to tell CDC to stop recommending fluoride in drinking waterby By Associated Press on April 7, 2025 at 11:08 pm
RFK Jr. also said he’s assembling a task force to focus on the issue.
- Trump on measles outbreak: ‘Not something new’on April 7, 2025 at 2:29 pm
- Kennedy announces support for measles vaccine amid outbreakby By Danny Nguyen on April 6, 2025 at 10:25 pm
The statement is a surprising turn for the health secretary and comes amid reports of a second child’s death.
- Second child dies from measles-related causes in West Texasby By Associated Press on April 6, 2025 at 3:59 pm
The state has almost 500 cases
- RFK Jr. said HHS would rehire thousands of fired workers. That wasn’t true.by By Adam Cancryn on April 4, 2025 at 11:39 pm
The health department has no plan to mass reinstate employees it cut earlier this week.
- RFK Jr. drops plan to have Medicare, Medicaid cover weight loss drugsby By Robert King on April 4, 2025 at 9:57 pm
The health secretary says better diet and exercise will keep Americans trim.
- RFK Jr.’s staff cuts leave health workers scramblingby By Ruth Reader, Chelsea Cirruzzo and Alice Miranda Ollstein on April 4, 2025 at 6:22 pm
Employees who survived mass firings this week say management hasn’t provided an accounting.
- Inside RFK Jr.’s MAHA agenda with Calley Means | Playbook Deep Diveby By Renee Klahr, Dasha Burns, Kara Tabor and Alex Keeney on April 4, 2025 at 12:16 am
- Which jobs were cut at CDC? Here’s a list.by By Sophie Gardner on April 3, 2025 at 11:23 pm
The Trump administration wants the agency to focus on infectious disease. Other areas of public health were hit hardest.
- Kennedy shutters several FOIA offices at HHSby By Ben Johansen on April 3, 2025 at 7:23 pm
The department plans to consolidate all agency FOIA offices into one.
- One takeaway from POLITICO’s Health Care Summit: Trump has broken open America’s partisan divide on healthby By Kelly Hooper and Carmen Paun on April 2, 2025 at 11:09 pm
Republicans painted a picture of a corrupt, broken system. Democrats said Trump’s cuts were putting millions of lives at risk.
- Fauci allies, Covid vaccine officials get ax at NIHby By Adam Cancryn and Erin Schumaker on April 2, 2025 at 7:00 pm
The removals have gutted FDA and NIH leadership.
- Top Trump FDA official Brenner hits pause on Novavax Covid-19 vaccine decisionby By David Lim, Adam Cancryn and Lauren Gardner on April 2, 2025 at 6:05 pm
The intervention by a senior FDA official in a product decision is a highly unusual action.
- Supreme Court wrestles with red state efforts to defund Planned Parenthoodby By Alice Miranda Ollstein and Josh Gerstein on April 2, 2025 at 5:47 pm
The case hinges on whether Medicaid patients have the right to see the doctor of their choice.
- Hassan defends her votes for Trump nomineesby By Robert King on April 2, 2025 at 5:07 pm
The New Hampshire senator has backed as many Trump Cabinet picks as anyone in the Democratic caucus.
- Supreme Court upholds FDA decision banning flavored vapesby By Hassan Ali Kanu on April 2, 2025 at 4:30 pm
The high court overturned a ruling that the FDA arbitrarily banned e-cigarette products.
- Republicans say efficiencies will save Medicaid. Dems say ‘not possible.’by By Ruth Reader on April 2, 2025 at 3:38 pm
Rep. Diana DeGette told POLITICO’s Health Care Summit that there’s not enough waste in Medicaid to find the savings the GOP is promising.
- Means defends HHS cuts, calls bureaucracy an ‘utter failure’by By Kelly Hooper on April 2, 2025 at 1:40 pm
He also said the election of Trump was a mandate to make dramatic change in leadership.
- Key House Republican opposes Medicaid cutsby By Ben Leonard on April 2, 2025 at 1:11 pm
Rep. Vern Buchanan told POLITICO’s Health Care Summit that Republicans will find savings in Medicaid but won’t cut it.
- The health industry is starting to express alarm about RFK Jr.by By David Lim on April 1, 2025 at 11:09 pm
Drug and medical device makers didn’t oppose Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation as health secretary but are speaking up in opposition to the agency downsizing he ordered.
- Thousands laid off as Kennedy and Musk take aim at health agenciesby By Sophie Gardner, Ruth Reader, Lauren Gardner and David Lim on April 1, 2025 at 1:24 pm
Overnight notices hit civil service leaders as well as the rank and file.
- Trump admin cuts tens of millions from Planned Parenthoodby By Alice Miranda Ollstein on March 31, 2025 at 9:59 pm
The Title X funds were earmarked for birth control and other non-abortion services.
- New FDA commissioner agreed to oust top vaccine regulator after private swearing-inby By Adam Cancryn and David Lim on March 31, 2025 at 6:26 pm
The forced resignation of Peter Marks has unsettled scientists and researchers.
- ‘This is all wholly preventable,’ former Covid chief says of measles outbreakby By Gregory Svirnovskiy on March 30, 2025 at 4:25 pm
Ashish Jha blames Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- Top FDA vaccine regulator Peter Marks pushed outby By David Lim, Adam Cancryn and Lauren Gardner on March 29, 2025 at 3:05 am
The departure of Marks leaves the agency without yet another senior regulator.
- Drug policy expert set to take senior role at HHSby By Myah Ward and Adam Cancryn on March 28, 2025 at 8:31 pm
Art Kleinschmidt would have a role focused on behavioral health issues.