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Trump’s Health Revolution Is Moving Faster Than Washington Expected

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Ashley Herzog is a freelance health care writer for The Heartland Institute. 

“Make America Healthy Again.” That simple slogan might sound difficult to disagree with, but President Donald Trump’s critics always find a way.  

Yet Trump is delivering on its promise.  

This month, his administration struck a deal with the nation’s largest pharmacy benefit manager to bring $7 billion in cost savings on prescription drugs to the American people over the next 10 years.  

Then, that same week, the president launched Trump Rx, an online portal to ensure the best priced drugs in the country can be found in a few clicks. 

Washington has talked about pharmacy benefit manager reform and prescription drug reform for decades. In his second term, Trump got them done in less than a year. 

It’s yet more evidence that Trump has been the real deal when it comes to health reform. It’s not just a slogan: Trump really is making America healthy again. 

MAHA is one of the most important aspects of the Trump health agenda. It’s spearheaded by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who hails from perhaps the most storied Democratic family in American history and was once a frequent critic of Trump’s. 

But at a Heritage Foundation event in early February marking his one-year anniversary on the job, Kennedy said, “It’s a joy to work for [Trump], because he lets me do stuff that I don’t think anybody else would ever let me do.”  

What led to such an about-face? 

Abraham Lincoln had his “Team of Rivals” and Trump has followed a similar playbook. What many fail to realize is that Trump is not just a change agent. He’s a revolutionary, determined to revamp a tired, broken, and wasteful deep-state bureaucracy. And when it comes to health initiatives, Trump realized that no one has been more innovative than RFK Jr.  

In turn, Kennedy came to recognize a kindred soul.  

As a member of Trump’s cabinet, Kennedy has been a lightning rod for criticism. Critics predicted no chance of success for MAHA and a short Cabinet stay for Kennedy—if he even managed to get confirmed, which he narrowly was despite united Senate opposition from members of his former party (Kennedy is now an independent).  

Kennedy’s disdain for longstanding dietary guidelines from agencies like the Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Department of Agriculture was considered radical. His relentless criticism of ultraprocessed foods were regarded by the establishment elite as nutty. 

But guess what? Americans overwhelmingly shared his concerns.  

According to an Axios/Ipsos poll from October 2025, “Nearly nine in ten (87%) of Americans say that the government should do more to make sure food is safe, such as updating nutritional guidelines, adding labels to foods with artificial dyes, or reducing exposure to pesticides. A similar number of respondents (90%) say it should be easier for the average American to understand food safety guidelines.” 

Like his boss in the Oval Office, Kennedy has managed to turn this public support into real results. As Politico recently reported, “Over the course of his year in the Cabinet, Kennedy has racked up major wins for his Make America Healthy Again movement by pushing the limits of his executive authority.” 

Among those victories, the story noted that Kennedy “promoted new guidelines that track his view that people should replace the ultraprocessed foods in their diets with red meat and whole milk, among other previously discouraged sources of nourishment.” 

The American Medical Association, the most trusted physicians’ group in the country, said in a statement that it “applauds the Administration’s new Dietary Guidelines for spotlighting the highly processed foods, sugar-sweetened beverages, and excess sodium that fuel heart disease, diabetes, obesity, and other chronic illnesses. The Guidelines affirm that food is medicine and offer clear direction patients and physicians can use to improve health.” 

Even a column in the Trump-hostile New York Times lauded the new guidelines, with Brown University professor Emily Oster writing that “the new nutrition advice is–dare I say it?–overall very sensible.” 

Trump’s commitment to improving the nation’s health will be among his most important legacies. From empowering Kennedy to revamp the nation’s food and diet guidelines to pharmacy benefit manager reform to the creation of TrumpRx, the Trump revolution is blazing the way for a healthier America. 

That’s something we can all agree with. 

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