With over a month to go before taking office, President-elect Donald Trump is already impacting public policy. His cabinet picks have drawn much support from his base but even more ire from Democrats and some Republicans concerned about how they might shake things up.
Dr. Jordan Vaughn, CEO of MedHelp in Birmingham and a co-executive director of Concerned Doctors, made waves during the COVID-19 pandemic for refusing to toe the line on all the government’s mandates.
On Wednesday, he joined “1819 News: The Podcast” to discuss his excitement for Trump’s choices to head up America’s key agencies — particularly when it comes to health and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Department of Health and Human Services secretary — and what areas they should focus on starting in January.
“In many ways, as much as we think the agencies are made by us, they're not. They are hiding a bunch of information,” Dr. Vaughn said. “... And so, I think the first thing he's [Kennedy] going to do is bring sunlight and allow access to all the things that are inconveniently true, which, to quote what Al Gore would have said back in the day, but that's what's going on in a lot of ways. And I think just doing that and you add in the ability now to analyze a lot of this data as well as the, what I would call, internet sleuths that are on our side, it's going to be quite interesting what we find.”
Vaughn, who recently received the Albert Patterson Courage Award, said renewed transparency in these government agencies would be key to restoring their credibility.
“So FDA, you know, open the books. CDC, open the books. And again, most people would say, well, you're going to burn down the institution. No, I think the institution's credibility is already burned and the only way to recover is to open the books.”
Vaughn said he hoped Trump and those around him would help right many wrongs in America’s health system by forcing physicians to refocus on patients instead of the bottom line.
“We have to get medicine back to where the doctor is completely aligned with the health of the patient, and in my view, the image bearer of God in front of them. OK?” the doctor said. “It is not because of the bureaucrat, the hospital system, the third-party payer or insurance company behind them, and that will get us back to where we need to be in medicine.”
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