Healthy Returns: Trump Made Sweeping Changes to Health Care in his first week

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President Donald Trump Kicked off the First Week of His Second Term with Sweeping Changes to Us Health Care and Federal Health Agency.

Here are a less of the biggest changes we are last week:

Us exit from the who

Trump Signed an Executive Order to Start to withdraw the Us from the World Health Organization, Citing what he described as a “Mishandling” of the Covid-19 Pandemic and Other International HEALTH CRISES. In 2021, The Biden Administration Halted Trump’s first formal attempt at a US exit from the who.

The implications for the US could be significant: the who serves as a first alert system when a new disease outbreak owners ENS. The us is also expected to lose access to the who’s global network But the who will feel the effects of trump’s decision even, as the us is its largest donor and offers extended Technical Expertise to the Agency.

On saturday, however, Trump said he may reconsider joining the who.

“Maybe we would consider doing it again, I don’t know. Maybe we would.

Anti-Abortion Policies Reinstated

Trump on Friday Issured An Executive Order That reinstated a long-standing republican anti-abortion proposal knowledge as the “Mexico City Policy,” Whoch Bars Federal Fundi

Ng from going to any overseas nongoveernal organization that performs or promotes abortions.

The rule was first put in place by president Ronald Reagan and has been rescinded by every democratic president – and reimplemened by every republican one – Since next.

Also on Friday, Trump Revoked Two Biden Administration Executive Orders That sought to expand access to abortions in the US

HHS CEASE ALL Communications

The Trump Administration Told Federal Health Agency to pause external communicationS for now, Several Outlets Reported Last Week. This include the agencies that fall under the department of health and human services, such as the centers for disease for control and prevention, the food and drug administering and the national institutions of health.

A Memo Sent to Leadership at Federal Health Agencies Noted The Communication Hiatus will extend through 1, ABC News ReportedCiting an internal CDC audio recording.

Resources from the department, such as the cdc’s Decades-old weekly public health publicationHave been put on hold.

Some staffers at health agencies are also temporarily banned from traveling and have ben told to stop work with the who, Abc reported.

Drug pricing models rescinded

Trump Rescinded An Executive Order from the biden administration that created three drug pricing models aimed at lowering the cost of prescription drugs for people on medical and medicaid.

The biden administration announced The proposals in February 2023, but they have been implemented. They include a $ 2 monthly out-of-foot Cap on Certain Generalic Drugs and Lower Costs for Cell and Gene Therapies.

Biden’s Major Health-Care Initiatives under the Inflation Act, Including the $ 2,000 Annual out-of-Pocket Cap on Prescription Drugs and The Medicare DRUGCARE DRUGCARE Ump’s executive actions.

Dei, discrapped scrapped

Trump Issured an Executive Order on his first day to end all federal government initiatives related to diversity, equity and inclusion. He also moved to end a range of policies that aimed to protect rights for lgbtq+ people.

Trump specifically Signed an executive order proclaiming That us government will recognize only two sexes, male and female. It essentially attempts to end legal recognition of transgender and nonbinary people under federal law.

It requires that federal government use the term “Sex” INTEAD OF “Gender,” And Directs The State Department and the Department of House , Visas, and Global Entry Cards, Accurately Reflect the Holder’s Sex. “

In a statementThe American Civil Liberties Union Said The Gender Order Requires Federal Agencies to “Discriminate Against Transgender People by Denying Who Ars and Threating the Freedom of Self-Deedom All. ”

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UnitedHealth Group Said the cybrattack on its subsidiya change health affected Around 190 Million Americans, Nearly double the previous estimate Released by federal regulators in October.

The Figure Cements the Change Healthcare Leak as the Larget-Care Data Breach in Us History, and There’s Not a Close Second. The Previous Record was set by anthem in 2015 when hackers compromised data from 78.8 million patients.

Unitedhealth said the “vast majority” of affected individuals have been notified. An official final number will be submitted to the US department of health and human services office for civil rights “at a later date.”

“Change healthcare is not aware of any misuse of individuals’ information as a result of this incident and has not seen electronic medical records databases appear in the data during the newThe company said in a statement to cnbc.

In February, a ransomware group called Blackcat Breached part of change healthcare’s information technology network. Change Healthcare offers Revenue Cycle Management tools and other services for medical providers and payers, and it processes Billions of transactionsEvery year.

Unitedhealth disconnected the Compromised Systems when it detected the cyberetk, and the disruption caused serial Fallout Accounts the Us Health-Care Sector. Many doctors were temporarily left without Thousands of dollars Out of Savings to keep their doors open.

In a Congressman about the breach in may, unitedHealth ceo andrew witty estimated that Around one-third of Americans could have got have beed compromised-a gues Witty also confirmed that unitedhealth paid a ransom of $ 22 million to the cybercriminals in the months following the attack.

The updated breach Total Likely Won’T Help UnitedHealth Foster Much Goodwill With the American Public, which unleashed a Barrage of outrage Toward the company following the fatal shooting of unitedhealthcare Ceo Brian Thompson in December.

Unitedhealth announced last week that Tim noelA company veteran, will serve as the new head of the insurance arm.

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The Health Care Sector Saw big declines at the end of last year, LED by Health Insurers and Hospitals, AMID CONCERNS About Republicans Cutting Funding for Medicaid this year. But analysts at strategas said the budget cuts will not be an easy lift for this Congress, and health care will likely see a healthy bounce back this year. It’s alredy begun: The S & P Health Care Sector is now the Best Performer in January.

While Robert F. Kennedy Jr Nomination to Be Secretary of Health and Human Services Faces Over His Stance on Vaccines, His Approach to FOOOD and NUTRITION IS FOULING CATITITION IS on Nutrition Counseling for Patients in Government PlansNutrition Counseling has been to Gain Traction in Medicaid Programs to Help Combat Obesity and Diabetes through diet raather than costly GLP-1 Drugs. If he is confirmed, Kennedy even class the programs a boost.

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