Getting creative with health care in a new Trump administration (Podcast)

By Torie Bosch Originally published on Stat News First Opinion Podcast on Nov. 13, 2024

If Kamala Harris had won the 2024 election, Carmel Shachar, an assistant clinical professor at Harvard Law and health policy expert, expected that her work would have continued to be technocratic, focusing on “the nitty-gritty regulations we need” to fine-tune health care.

But a Trump win, she told me on this episode of the “First Opinion Podcast,” means something different altogether. Now, her work will become “a little bit defensive,” focusing on keeping the Affordable Care Act alive, protecting physicians from government interference in their work (a topic she also recently addressed in a First Opinion essay), and more, particularly around reproductive rights.

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