Lisa Jarvis, Columnist

Trump’s Health-Care Plan Is Mostly Just RFK Jr.

The former president’s health policies are a contradictory mish-mash of vaccine skepticism, deregulation and culture-war grievances.

November 2, 2024 at 12:00 PM UTC

By Lisa Jarvis

Lisa Jarvis is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering biotech, health care and the pharmaceutical industry. Previously, she was executive editor of Chemical & Engineering News.

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When former President Donald Trump alluded to “concepts of a plan” for health care during his September debate against Vice President Kamala Harris, it spawned memes (and Halloween costumes). It’s since evolved into a pitch to “Make America Healthy Again,” a tagline borrowed from Trump’s increasingly prominent ally Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Yet the ongoing lack of actual details — whether related to the Affordable Care Act, the regulation of food and medicines, or the direction of public health institutions — leaves voters with no choice but to fill in the blanks with the information at hand. And the information at hand is concerning.