Gregg Margolis: Three Things to Read About Health Policy This Week
Gregg Margolis, Director of Health Policy Fellowships and Leadership Programs at the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), shared a post on LinkedIn:
“If you can only read three things about health policy this week, I suggest…
Healthcare Dive: Trump Releases 2026 Budget Including Heavy Healthcare Cuts. The White House released a 2026 budget on Friday that includes steep cuts to healthcare programs, particularly those housed in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health, continuing the Trump administration’s broadside against biomedical research and public health funding.
The president’s budget is a wish list and holds no weight on its own, though Congress often takes the blueprint into account when allocating funding for the upcoming year. The 40-page request sent to Congress by Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought includes a 23% cut to the government’s discretionary funding and a 13% increase in military spending overall. If enacted, the HHS would have its discretionary funding cut by 26%. (Pifer, 5/5)
Roll Call: House GOP Drops Some Medicaid Cuts From Reconciliation Plan Republicans will have to come up with alternative savings to make up for hundreds of billions of dollars in potential Medicaid cuts that GOP leaders appeared to rule out after meeting with moderates in Speaker Mike Johnson’s office Tuesday evening.
Johnson, R-La., said leadership had ruled out two Medicaid policies that could go a long way toward meeting the Energy and Commerce Committee’s $880 billion, 10-year savings target but faced strong pushback from blue-state GOP centrists. (Hellmann, Raman and Bridges, 5/6)
Politico: The MAGA Backlash To Trump’s MAHA Surgeon General Pick President Donald Trump’s new pick for surgeon general – wellness influencer Casey Means – is already the target of MAGA vitriol, underscoring a split inside the president’s base over the future of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s ‘Make America Healthy Again’ movement. Trump’s decision to select Means came just hours after news broke about his decision to withdraw Janette Nesheiwat, a former Fox News contributor, for the post. (Gardner, 5/8)
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