Trumping Up a Health Care Charity - Trump Organization Received Increasing Revenue from a Children ' s Cancer Care Charity

While health and health care are clearly not central interests of the currentUS President, Donald J Trump, we have noted some disturbing stories about the effects of his leadership on health care.  Most importantly, prior to the election, a story appeared alleging that Mr Trump licensed his name, and actively supported the Trump Network, which sold dodgy vitamin supplements to gullible consumers based on the results of urine tests of unproven, at best, accuracy (lookhere). While Mr Trump is controversial, to say the least, on multiple levels, never in modern history can I recall a president who was alleged to have been a major player in what appears to be a health scam.Moreover, since Mr Trump was elected we have noted his proposed and actual appointments to positions of power over health and health care people with severe conflicts of interest, sometimes with no or limited experience in and knowledge of health and health care, and sometimes who had acted against the values of health care professionals  (lookhere,here,here,here,here,here,here,here, andhere ).  (Please note that since while our focus in health care dysfunction, we emphasize cases that are not extensively reported in the media and/or medical and health care literature.  So this list is hardly exhaustive.)Now we have in the public arena a case in which Mr Trump apparently subverted the good intentions of a charity designed by his son to benefit children with severe illness, resulting in appar...
Source: Health Care Renewal - Category: Health Management Tags: boards of trustees cancer Donald Trump health care corruption health care foundations mission-hostile management Source Type: blogs