Joseph Choi

Washington, D.C., United States

Health Care Reporter at The Hill

Reporting on health care @thehill | Multimedia Journalist | Mastodon: @[email protected] Interned: The Daily News Journal / The Tennessean / WKRN News-2

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Articles

Trump’s surgeon general pick exposes cracks in MAHA movement

3 days ago | thehill.com | Joseph Choi |Alejandra O'Connell Domenech |Nathaniel Weixel

President Trump’s second choice for U.S. surgeon general has set off a wave of infighting within the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement. Casey Means is a prominent health influencer and ally of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., but she is seen as insufficiently skeptical of vaccines by some of his prominent supporters — and a “total crack pot” by others in Trump World.
RFK Jr. on damage control over surgeon general nominee

5 days ago | thehill.com | Nathaniel Weixel |Joseph Choi |Alejandra O'Connell Domenech

Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sat down for a Fox News interview Thursday to try to quell the tide of opposition that arose from MAGA figures after President Trump chose a health technology entrepreneur as his second pick for Surgeon General. President Trump chose Casey Means, a Kennedy ally and prominent nutrition advocate in the Make America Healthy Again movement as his nominee for the post.
House GOP out of sync on Medicaid

6 days ago | thehill.com | Nathaniel Weixel |Joseph Choi |Alejandra O'Connell Domenech

One of the thorniest issues facing House Republicans has yet to be resolved, even as the Energy and Commerce Committee barrels toward a meeting early next week to mark up its portion of President Trump’s domestic policy bill.
Democrats push GOP toward Medicare ‘upcoding’ instead of Medicaid cuts

6 days ago | thehill.com | Joseph Choi

Democratic lawmakers are asking GOP leadership to reject Medicaid cuts in favor of going after Medicare Advantage “upcoding” as a way of saving federal dollars and addressing waste, fraud and abuse. A group of more than 40 bicameral Democratic lawmakers wrote to Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) and Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), asking that they reject calls for Medicaid cuts.
Democrats push GOP toward Medicare ‘upcoding’ instead of Medicaid cuts

6 days ago | yahoo.com | Joseph Choi

Democratic lawmakers are asking GOP leadership to reject Medicaid cuts in favor of going after Medicare Advantage “upcoding” as a way of saving federal dollars and addressing waste, fraud and abuse. A group of more than 40 bicameral Democratic lawmakers wrote to Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) and Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), asking that they reject calls for Medicaid cuts.
RFK Jr.’s new vaccine testing rule agitates industry, experts

6 days ago | thehill.com | Joseph Choi

When the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a new requirement for placebo testing on all new vaccines last week, the agency suggested the move would help protect consumers. But medical experts and vaccine makers say wide application of the rule would be an unnecessary drain on time and money, while raising ethical questions by depriving some patients of safe vaccines that could protect them from disease.
RFK Jr.’s new vaccine testing rule agitates industry, experts

6 days ago | yahoo.com | Joseph Choi

When the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a new requirement for placebo testing on all new vaccines last week, the agency suggested the move would help protect consumers. But medical experts and vaccine makers say wide application of the rule would be an unnecessary drain on time and money, while raising ethical questions by depriving some patients of safe vaccines that could protect them from disease.
Pharma warns tariffs mean less R&D

1 week ago | thehill.com | Nathaniel Weixel |Joseph Choi |Alejandra O'Connell Domenech

The pharmaceutical trade group PhRMA has come out strongly against tariffs, warning that every dollar collected in tariffs means one less dollar invested in U.S. biopharmaceutical research and development.
Trump pulls surgeon general pick, nominates Casey Means

1 week ago | thehill.com | Joseph Choi

President Trump has pulled his nomination of Janette Nesheiwat to be U.S. surgeon general and has instead chosen chronic disease entrepreneur Casey Means, a physician with close ties to the “Make American Healthy Again,” or MAHA, movement, as his new pick to fill the role.
Trump pulls surgeon general nominee

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Joseph Choi

President Trump has pulled his nomination of Janette Nesheiwat to be U.S. surgeon general and has instead chosen chronic disease entrepreneur Casey Means, a physician with close ties to the “Make American Healthy Again,” or MAHA, movement, as his new pick to fill the role.