To call it a plan to “reshape U.S. healthcare policy” is a hell of a way to describe the anticipated destruction laid out for all to see, and promoted loudly on all the right-wing pundit podcasts.
STAT – Trump surrogates hint at how he could reshape U.S. health care policy Sarah Owermohle By Sarah Owermohle April 23, 2024 “Merkel and others cautioned that the Trump campaign is still in early stages of creating his health policy agenda”
Can these people hear themselves? There’s a 900 page document released last summer laying it all out, how to stop vaccinations, to privatize everything, and make public policies and public agencies align with extremist religious agendas. In Stat, they make a cursory reference to The Heritage Foundation, and present it in this article as if they never even heard of Project 2025 and the 900+ pages on how to dismantle public health and a whole lot else.
Some commenter on the MedPage Today newsletter actually said: “If Trump were elected again he could cut vaccine safety testing time down from several years to just a few months in order to rush vaccines through the approval process at warp speed so that he could take credit for them.”
Suggesting this, or even fantasizing about it, makes no sense in reality. Right-wing religious media is still promoting ivermectin at Trump events. Trump is not going to save public health, the right wing is against public health. And Trump has made it clear he will be anti-vax, even if it’s mercenary because he knows that the right-wing is now anti-vax as part of the platform. The entire right-wing milieu has embraced science denial and medical contrarianism. People acting like a Trump administration would be competent in doing anything for public health and healthcare that’s positive, are living in some fantasyland that I can only imagine in some cases has been the result of watching too many episodes of The West Wing or consuming too much content from covid contrarian alt-left journalists or something.