President Donald Trump’s new executive order on establishing higher standards for government-funded scientific research should not be necessary. Unfortunately, it is.

The 119th Congress is marching on, and Americans are looking to Washington to deliver on the mandate they issued last November. This mandate famously includes a drive to make America healthy again — and Congress’ Farm Bill gives us the avenue to accomplish that goal.

It is no secret that America’s obesity epidemic’s largest victim is the federal government. In fact, if the federal government were a person and had a TV show, it would likely end up in rotation somewhere between My 600 Pound Life and 1000 Pound Sisters on TLC.

In American history, there have been many examples of one president leaving a parting gift for his incoming successor. Typically, these take the form of handwritten notes often not privy to the public, but other times a president will take a more… creative approach.

Medicare Advantage plans, which combine these parts, are now a mature market. Indeed, many new Medicare beneficiaries bypass legacy Medicare altogether.

Disease prevention is an integral part of our public health sphere and has been at the forefront of our national conversation on health. It is why Americans have led the charge in eliminating diseases like polio and smallpox and is one of the reasons we joined the World Health Organization (WHO).

The legacy media have been in a tailspin covering the second Trump administration. The American people voted for government reform in November, and we have seen actions taken by the president aiming to accomplish that. 

Over the past decade or so, special interest groups funded by Big Pharma have pushed to make what was recently unthinkable mainstream: policies making the removal of healthy body parts and resulting in the sterilization of our nation’s children.

The COVID-19 pandemic marked a new epoch for public health policy and scientific discourse.

In a nutshell, the government publishes the cost of providing services to Medicare beneficiaries in a county and allows health plans to bid to provide those services.