On September 9, the Trump Administration released the “Make Our Children Healthy Again: Strategy Report” outlining its government-wide plan to address the proclaimed childhood chronic disease crisis. In a new insight, Director of Health Care Policy Michael Baker walks through the policy proposals in the report and how to interpret its recommendations.

Key Points:

• The Strategy Report is the follow-up report to the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission’s “Make Our Children Healthy Again: Assessment,” and contains policy recommendations in support of the Assessment.
• The Strategy Report contains more than 120 recommendations spanning multiple federal Cabinet departments and agencies to identify mostly executive actions to address the proclaimed childhood chronic disease crisis.
• These recommendations should be interpreted as an opening salvo of regulatory activity aimed at demonstrating progress on the declared childhood chronic illness crisis; nevertheless, implementation uncertainty around the goals in the Strategy Report will remain the default policy environment for the foreseeable future.

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