{"id":11127,"date":"2025-12-30T17:58:55","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T23:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=11127"},"modified":"2025-12-30T21:55:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T03:55:50","slug":"in-2026-kennedys-maha-vision-gets-put-to-the-test-here-are-3-issues-to-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/12\/30\/in-2026-kennedys-maha-vision-gets-put-to-the-test-here-are-3-issues-to-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"In 2026, Kennedy\u2019s MAHA vision gets put to the test. Here are 3 issues to watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/12\/29\/chronic-disease-maha-issues-to-watch-2026\/\">STAT<\/a> In many ways, it\u2019s been a banner year for chronic disease. America\u2019s enduring ailments became a central theme of the Trump administration, with health secretary&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/11\/18\/rfk-jr-profile-hhs-secretary-delivers-on-trump-maha-priorities\/\">Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wielding his influence<\/a>&nbsp;over the president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump created a commission focused on childhood chronic illnesses, which issued two reports on the matter.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/03\/26\/maha-movement-state-laws-rfk-jr-make-america-healthy-again\/\">Statehouses across the country passed<\/a>&nbsp;Make America Healthy Again-inspired legislation. Private companies and public bodies began emphasizing their commitments to combatting disease.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/04\/09\/snap-soda-ban-maha-movement-health-nutrition-runs-into-political-headwinds\/\">Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Programs cut soda<\/a>&nbsp;from their menus.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STAT In many ways, it\u2019s been a banner year for chronic disease. America\u2019s enduring ailments became a central theme of the Trump administration, with health secretary&nbsp;Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wielding his influence&nbsp;over the president. Trump created a commission focused on childhood chronic illnesses, which issued two reports on the matter.&nbsp;Statehouses across the country passed&nbsp;Make America [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[78,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-policy","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11128,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11127\/revisions\/11128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}