Don ' t Know Much About Health Care and Public Health... but Appointed to Leadership Positions in US Government Health Care Agencies

Discussion Again, it stands to reason that people entrusted with running US government health care, public health and health policy should have some level of knowledge of biomedical science, health care, public health and/or health policy.  I dimly remember that before the Trump administration, many such leaders did have such background.  Not any more.This is only the latest examples of amazingly ill-informed people taking important responsibilities in government agencies having to do with health care, public health, and/or health policy.  Remember the brew-master with power over major policies in the Veterans Administration having to do with the huge VA health system (lookhere); or the White House economic adviser who did not seem to understand what health insurance does (lookhere); the Director of the Office of Management and the Budget who said people who make bad dietary choices do not deserve health insurance (lookhere)? and then there were all the appointments to health care related leadership positions of people whose main qualification seemed to be they would come through therevolving door after being lobbyists for health care corporations, e.g., lookhere. How are we to survive these times?  We need health policy leadership that is well-informed, understands the health care mission, avoids self-interest and conflicts of interest, and is accountable, ethical and honest.  (Of course, we have often said we need leadership of health care...
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