MAHA Begins
By Bob Small
We’ve been supporters of Children’s Health Defense (CHD) since learning about it.
We had become Covid vaccine skeptics and I went so far as to attend the CHD 2023 Conference. It helped that this was in November in Savannah, GA. Any effort to beat back the medical-industrial complex is to be welcomed.
The possibilities of Make America Healthy Again or MAHA were broached by Trump Press Secretary Karoline Levitt after President Trump signed an executive order creating a MAHA commission and directing Bobby Kennedy Jr. “to investigate this chronic crisis plaguing our country and the minds and the bodies of the American people.”
Another possibility is further safety studies of food dyes and other additives.
Of course there are limits to what RFK, Jr. can do. Part of the problem is the multiplicity of Agencies. Tom Scully who worked in the George W. Bush administration a current CMS chart and “there are offices I never heard of when I was there 20 years ago,” .
Another factor is that the HHS Secretary “does make the final decision” on vaccine approvals.
There are some issues that members of the medical community want addressed. Number uno is the ever-rising costs of “maintenance” drugs.
Patients for Affordable Drugs , for instance, wants RFK, Jr. to take on Big Pharma
The Pharmaceutical Care Management Association (PCMA) wants him to address “the prices set by drug companies and misuse of the patent system that blocks market-based competition for more affordable alternatives like generics and biosimilars,” said JC Scott, president and CEO of PCMA.” However is PCMA also part of the problem?
Locally, some of the fear of change comes from CHOP (Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP).
“I think it’s a sad day for America’s children. I think it’s a sad day for public health when someone who is a science denialist, conspiracy theorist, and virulent anti-vaccine activist is [leading] the biggest public health agency in the United States,” says Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at CHOP.
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