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17 documents · busiest Feb 2025

Drug pricing, prescription medications, vaccine policy, and health service delivery; excludes foreign health organizations or research grants.

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Feb 25, 2025 · executive orderMaking America Healthy Again by Empowering Patients With Clear, Accurate, and Actionable Healthcare Pricing Information
Feb 18, 2025 · executive orderExpanding Access to In Vitro Fertilization
domestic policy
Feb 14, 2025 · executive orderKeeping Education Accessible and Ending COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates in Schools
higher education
Feb 13, 2025 · executive orderEstablishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission
domestic policy

Executive Order EO 14212

Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission

SignedDonald Trump · Feb 13, 2025

Trump establishes a commission to study and reverse rising rates of chronic disease and mental illness in American children and adults.

Creates no new funding or legal authority. The commission must work within existing agency budgets and powers, and its reports and recommendations are advisory only.

What it does (13)

Policy
- Directs federal health research to prioritize transparency, open-source data, and elimination of conflicts of interest
- Requires the National Institutes of Health to focus on root causes of chronic disease
- Directs agencies to work with farmers to make U.S. food healthier, more abundant, and more affordable
- Requires agencies to expand insurance coverage for lifestyle changes and disease prevention
Establishment and Composition of the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission
- Establishes the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission with 14 named federal officials and agency heads
Fighting Childhood Chronic Disease
- Directs the commission to study scope and causes of childhood chronic disease
- Requires the commission to advise the President on informing the public about childhood health crisis
- Requires the commission to provide government-wide policy and strategy recommendations
Initial Assessment and Strategy from the Make America Healthy Again Commission
- Commission must submit assessment within 100 days comparing U.S. childhood chronic disease to other countries
- Assessment must evaluate risks of medication overuse, certain food ingredients, and chemical exposures
- Assessment must assess prevalence of psychiatric and weight-loss drugs prescribed to children
- Commission must submit strategy within 180 days recommending restructuring of federal childhood health response
- Chair may hold public hearings and seek expert input on public health and government accountability

Read it on the Federal Register