The president of the United States, Donald Trump, attends a meeting of the Republican Member Conference of the Chamber at Trump National Doral Resort, in Miami, Florida, USA. UU. January 27, 2025.
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President Donald Trump began the first week of his second term with radical changes in the medical care of the United States and federal health agencies.
These are some of the biggest changes we saw last week:
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Trump signed an executive order to start withdrawing the United States 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 stopped Trump's first formal attempt by an American OMS departure.
The implications for the US could be significant: WHO serves as a first alert alert system when a new disease outbreak occurs, which helps member countries quickly obtain the necessary information to help their citizens. The United States is also expected to lose access to the global WHO network that establishes the composition of the flu vaccine every year. But WHO will feel the effects of Trump's decision even more, since the United States is its greatest donor and offers extensive technical experience to the agency.
On Saturday, however, Trump said he can reconsider to join the WHO.
“Maybe we would consider doing it again, I don't know. Maybe we would have to clean it,” Trump said in a rally in Las Vegas, according to several points of sale.
Restored anti -abortion policies
Trump issued an executive order on Friday that reinstated a proposal of long-standing republican anti-abortion known as the “policy of Mexico City”, which prohibits the Federal Fundi Fundi
To go to any non -governmental organization abroad that performs or promotes abortions.
The rule was first established by President Ronald Reagan and has been rescinded by each Democratic president, and reimplay by each Republican, since then.
Also on Friday, Trump revoked two executive orders of the Biden Administration that sought to expand access to abortions in the United States
HHS cease all communications
The Trump administration told federal health agencies to pause external communications for now, several points of sale reported last week. This includes the agencies that are under the Department of Health and Human Services, such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Food and Medicines Administration and National Health Institutes.
A memorandum sent to leadership in federal health agencies said the communication break will run until February 1, ABC News reported, citing an internal audio recording of the CDCs.
The resources of the department, such as the public health publication of decades of decades of the CDCs, have been suspended.
Some employees of health agencies were also prohibited from traveling temporarily and they have been told to stop working with WHO, ABC reported.
Disadvantled Drug Price Models
Trump rescinded an executive order of the Biden Administration that created three drug prices models aimed at reducing the cost of prescription drugs for people in Medicare and Medicaid.
The Biden administration announced the proposals in February 2023, but had not been implemented. They included a monthly pocket limit of $ 2 in certain generic drugs and lower costs for cell and gene therapies.
The main medical care initiatives of Biden under the inflation reduction law, including the annual annual pocket limit of $ 2,000 in prescription medications and the Medicare medication price negotiation program, were not affected by executive actions by the executive actions Trump.
DEI, discrimination protections discrimination
Trump issued an executive order on his first day to end all federal government initiatives related to diversity, equity and inclusion. He also moved to finish a variety of policies that aimed to protect rights for LGBTQ+people.
Trump specifically signed an executive order that proclaimed that the United States government will recognize only two sexes, men and women. Essentially tries to end the legal recognition of transgender and non -binary persons under federal law.
It requires that the federal government use the term “sex” instead of “gender”, and lead that the State Department and the Department of National Security “require that the identification documents issued by the Government, including passports, visas and cards of Global entrance, precisely, with precision.
In a statement, the American Union of Civil Libertads said that the gender order requires that federal agencies “discriminate against transgender people by denying who they are and threatening the freedom of self -determination and self -expression for all.”
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The latest in Medical Care Technology: Changing Medical Care cyberbells affected more than half of the American population
Unitedhealth Group The cyber attack said in his subsidiary changes health affected around 190 million Americans, almost twice the previous estimate published by federal regulators in October.
The figure cements the medical change leak as the greatest violation of reported medical care data in the history of the United States, and there is not a close second. The previous registration was established by Anthem in 2015 when computer pirates committed data of 78.8 million patients.
UnitedHealth said that the “vast majority” of affected people has been notified. An official final number will be presented to the Office of Civil Rights of the Department of Health and Human Services of the United States “on a later date.”
“Changing medical care is not aware of any improper use of people's information as a result of this incident and has not seen that the databases of electronic medical records appear in the data during the analysis.” The company said in a statement to CNBC.
In February, a ransomware group called Blackcat violated part of the Change Healthcare information technology network. Change Healthcare offers income management tools and other services for medical suppliers and payers, and processes billions of transactions every year.
UnitedHealth disconnected the committed systems when it detected cyber attack, and the interruption caused serious consequences throughout the United States medical care sector. Many doctors left temporarily without a way to fill the recipes or paid for their services, and some suppliers took thousands of dollars from the savings to keep their doors open.
At a Congress audience on rape in May, the CEO of Unitedhealth, Andrew Witty, estimated that around a third of Americans could have been compromised, an assumption that has now proven too low. Witty also confirmed that Unitedhealth paid a rescue of $ 22 million to cybercriminals in the months after attack.
The total breach updated will probably not help UnitedHealth to promote a lot of good will with the American public, which unleashed a barrage of indignation towards the company after the fatal shooting of the CEO of United of UnitedHarde, Brian Thompson, in December.
UnitedHealth announced last week that Tim Noel, a veteran of the company, will serve as the new chief of the insurance arm.
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The medical care sector has a higher performance in 2025
The medical care sector saw great decreases at the end of last year, led by health insurers and hospitals, amid concerns about Republicans who reduce funds for Medicaid this year. But Strategas analysts said that budget cuts will not be an easy impulse for this congress, and that medical care will probably see a healthy rebound this year. It has already begun: the S&P medical care sector is now the best performance in January.
Food programs such as medicine expect the Trump administration to focus on nutrition
While the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be Secretary of Health and Human Services faces the opposition about his posture on vaccines, his food and nutrition approach is feeding the cautious optimism between the new companies focused on nutritional advice for patients in government plans. Nutritional advice has begun to gain traction in Medicaid programs to help fight obesity and diabetes through diet instead of the expensive GLP-1 medications. If confirmed, Kennedy could boost the programs.
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