MSNBC host Rachel Maddow and former US Commissioner of Food and Drugs Dr. David Kessler on Monday offered a deep-dive into what President Donald Trump’s most recent physical reveals about the president’s personal health — and the state of U.S. health infrastructure as a whole.
As Maddow reports, Kessler “looked at the report from Trump’s annual physical last month,” and noted the president is on an “intensive lipid-lowering therapy” which can help reduce “significant risk of cardiac disease.”
Maddow described the president’s health status as a “success story.”
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“The president of the United States appears to be approving his own health through access to great medical care and great medical science, that’s what he gets,” Maddow explained. “Simultaneously, his administration is doing so much to hurt regular Americans’ opportunity to achieve those same good health outcomes the same way.”
The MSNBC host went on to note the Trump administration as “slashed” the budget for the National Institutes of Health and left employees at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration “reeling from huge staffing cuts.”
Maddow explained Trump is “personally benefiting in his own health” while “simultaneously … destroying that infrastructure for everyone else.”
Kessler agreed, telling Maddow Trump “is destroying those institutions that gave birth to the treatments” he’s using in his own medical care.
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