Joseph Choi

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

The CBO’s latest report estimates that 10.9 million people would be uninsured over the next decade if the sprawling spending package, which includes much of Trump’s legislative agenda, were enacted. CBO found that the legislation, combined with the number of people who would lose insurance if Congress fails to extend ACA subsidies that help people afford insurance coverage, would result in 16 million people losing insurance.

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

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) head Marty Makary vowed to review the abortion drug mifepristone after previously saying he had no plans to take action on the drug. “As with all drugs, FDA continues to closely monitor the postmarketing safety data on mifepristone for the medical termination of an early pregnancy,” Makary wrote in a letter to Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.).

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

The White House is seeking $94.7 billion to fund the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in fiscal year 2026, a decrease of more than $31 billion. The proposal released late Friday provides new details that were missing from the administration’s initial release about a month ago. The latest proposal reflects HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s focus on chronic disease and desire to reshape the federal health agencies.

4 days ago | thehill.com | Joseph Choi

In the telling of President Trump and his Health and Human Services secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., autism in the U.S. has exploded in the past decades with seemingly no explanation. These claims skip over a mountain of data and touch on the country’s dark history around treating people with neurological and developmental differences, including within Kennedy’s own illustrious family. “We are indeed diagnosing autism more than ever before in history.

4 days ago | yahoo.com | Joseph Choi

In the telling of President Trump and his Health and Human Services secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., autism in the U.S. has exploded in the past decades with seemingly no explanation. These claims skip over a mountain of data and touch on the country’s dark history around treating people with neurological and developmental differences, including within Kennedy’s own illustrious family. “We are indeed diagnosing autism more than ever before in history.