Stephanie Armour

News July 20, 2025

In Rush To Satisfy Trump, GOP Delivers Blow to Health Industry

By Phil Galewitz & Stephanie Armour – Doctors, hospitals, and health insurers for weeks issued dire warnings to Republican lawmakers that millions of people would lose health coverage and hospitals would close if they cut Medicaid funding to help pay for President Donald Trump’s big tax and spending bill.

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Regulatory Issues May 18, 2025

Trump Policies at Odds With ‘Make America Healthy Again’ Push

By Stephanie Armour – But even as he extols MAHA, Trump has unleashed a slew of policies likely to make Americans less healthy. He’s slashing 20,000 full time positions from HHS and cutting more than $4 billion in indirect costs related to health research grants, including studies into treatment for Alzheimer’s and cancer.