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Global health executive orders expected |
President Trump entered office with a slew of executive orders on deck to carry out his campaign promises. He is expected to reinstate a controversial abortion policy, potentially as early as Monday. |
The so-called Mexico City Policy, also referred to as the global gag rule by its opponents, would restrict foreign nongovernmental organizations that receive U.S. funding from performing, counseling or providing information on abortions. It was first introduced during the second Reagan administration and has been rescinded by every Democratic president and reinstated by every Republican president since. Trump restored the policy four days into his first term before former President Biden rescinded it again a week into his own. He renamed it "Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance" and expanded it to apply to most federal global health funding rather than just family planning funding. Reproductive health advocates fear Trump could further expand the policy to almost all U.S. foreign assistance, pointing to what The Heritage Foundation recommended in Project 2025 as evidence of what is to come. Aside from abortions, Trump could also withdraw the U.S. from the World Health Organization (WHO), repeating a move he tried in his first term. But while it can be done without Congress, the withdrawal from the organization requires a one-year notice; Trump lost the 2020 election before the period ended. Trump repeatedly assailed WHO, alleging bias toward China, and used it as a scapegoat for his own administration's pandemic response. Ending U.S. membership would cause the organization to lose hundreds of millions of dollars in funding, and the U.S. would lose access to WHO resources. |
Welcome to The Hill's Health Care newsletter, I'm Nathaniel Weixel — every week we follow the latest moves on how Washington impacts your health. |
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How policy will be impacting the health care sector this week and beyond: |
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Fauci says he will accept preemptive pardon from Biden |
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Dr. Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), told The Hill on Monday that he intends to accept the pardon preemptively offered to him by President Biden. |
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President-elect Trump campaigned on leaving abortion decisions to the states, but that could prove a tough promise to keep as he returns to the Oval Office. Anti-abortion groups want Trump to quickly take executive action to re-impose federal restrictions from his first term; Republicans in Congress are poised to send him new abortion legislation; and his Justice Department will need to decide whether to continue … |
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Cecile Richards, the former president of Planned Parenthood, died at the age of 67 on Monday after a battle with cancer. "This morning our beloved Cecile passed away at home, surrounded by her family and her ever-loyal dog, Ollie," Richards's family wrote in a statement. "Our hearts are broken today but no words can do justice to the joy she brought to our lives." President Biden, who honored Richards with the Medal … |
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DOJ hits Walgreens with lawsuit for filling 'unlawful' opioid prescriptions |
The Department of Justice (DOJ) hit drugstore chain Walgreens with a lawsuit this week for filling "unlawful" opioid prescriptions that had no "legitimate" medical purpose for over a decade. The lawsuit, which was filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on Thursday, alleges that Walgreens' pharmacists filled millions of prescriptions despite "red flags" indicating that they were likely to be unlawful … |
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Local and state headlines on health care: |
- In wake of Steward collapse, new Mass. law takes aim at private equity in health care (Boston Globe)
- Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick says Legislature should clarify Texas abortion law to protect mothers at risk (Texas Tribune)
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Health news we've flagged from other outlets: |
- Trump finally finds a populist health care message in Kennedy's MAHA (Stat)
- Research indicates recreational ketamine use is on the rise (The Washington Post)
- Beaten down under Biden, Big Pharma hopes for new chapter under Trump (The Wall Street Journal)
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