We were looking at the policies other countries had adopted that allowed their populations to live longer and healthier, said Dr. Steven Woolf... often included universal healthcare, educational support, gun violence prevention and laws that reduce smoking... Many of which are opposed by the Trump administration or have been opposed by Republican state leaders.
One of the immediate takeaways from the election is that policy agenda is now even more doubtful—essentially a political non-starter, said Woolf. Now, the bigger concern sweeping over all of this is we're likely to see the heralding of a set of new policies that are going to compromise health even more.
The foreboding future envisioned by researchers highlights the gulf between what decades of research show are the key drivers of poor health...and the belief in alternative medicines supported by one of Trump's key advisers, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Kennedy laid out his policy agenda on social media... Anything else that advances human health and can't be patented by Pharma. Without getting into the minutia of that list—some of which is actively harmful—the focus stands in contrast to what population health scientists see as the most effective solutions.
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