Over my career, I have worked as a primary care physician, a professor at Harvard Medical School, and an executive at CVS Health. So by all means, yes, let’s Make America Healthy Again. But if that’s truly the goal, then the Trump administration’s approach, led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is a farce.

Despite lofty slogans, there is no clear or coherent health policy coming out of this administration. Instead, we are seeing a patchwork of marginal reforms paired with sweeping changes that ultimately do more harm than good.

Kennedy, along with figures like Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz, National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya, and FDA Commissioner Martin Makary, may hold political and medical credentials, but their worldview is steeped in grievance — particularly over how their views were sidelined during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Unfortunately, that resentment — more than science, compassion or public health expertise — appears to be shaping national policy.

Some initiatives, at face value, seem reasonable. Encouraging Americans to eat less processed food? Great. Eliminating artificial dyes from products? Sure. But these measures are meaningless when paired with cuts to nutrition assistance programs that help low-income families afford healthy food in the first place. You can’t claim to care about clean eating while gutting the very systems that........

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