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No matter what happens on Election Day, the midterms will have sweeping implications for American health care

In September, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired the two vice chairs of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. This move was both unsurprising and troubling. The task force is a critical advisory body to HHS, reviewing scientific evidence to provide recommendations on whether private health insurers should be required to…

On Wednesday night in Clive, Iowa, a parade of Make America Healthy Again activists and Republican candidates decried Big Agriculture, stressed the rise in chronic disease in America, and called for the Covid-19 vaccine to be removed from the market. 

Abdul El-Sayed doesn’t make headlines as the Senate candidate who wrote a book on applying systems science to public health, or who worked to rebuild Detroit’s health system, or who researched the ways social circumstances can impact maternal mortality. 

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Two powerful House committees with jurisdiction over health care policies are expected to get several fresh faces after the midterms

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In 2013, the House Republican, who had become the party’s de facto “chief political strategist,” was at a Virginia resort with his colleagues, working to shift the GOP away from its stereotype as a party focused on the rich and their corporate interests, according to a New Yorker profile of him at the time.