Michael Bloomberg, the former New York City mayor and a public health advocate, is asking Senate Republicans to persuade President-elect Trump to rethink his choice of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for health secretary, saying it would be “beyond dangerous.”
We'll see who lands the FDA, NIH, and CDC slots - but given the nature of those organizations as sub-units of HHS with strong institutional memory and bureaucratic norms/processes, the CMS director being a medical TV personality is probably a deeply concerning sign for civil servants
There is no honest way to deny that between RFK Jr for HHS and Mehmet Oz for CMS, this is gearing up to be one of the least qualified groups to lead bureaucracies which affect a massive slice of both the economy and American people, ever.
Gonna start off by jinxing things and saying yes, this seems like a far lower toxicity environment than The Bad Place of Which We Ne’er Speak