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US health care: Chaos and controversy without real progress
Gulf Today
|December 27, 2025
The year 2025 has been one of the most turbulent years in modern U.S. health care.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The headlines were explosive, the rhetoric dramatic, and the controversies nonstop. Yet for all the hoopla and upheaval, the medical care Americans receive now, month in and month out, looks no better than what they experienced on Jan. Ibut far more expensive.
Here are some areas of health care that generated chaos, confusion, and conflict in 2025 without meaningful improvement.
No aspect of health care saw more volatility in 2025 than in the political arena. The tone was set in January when President Donald Trump returned to office and began reshaping federal health agencies with unprecedented speed. Within days, he issued a record flurry of executive orders targeting the Affordable Care Act, Medicaid waivers, Medicare Advantage oversight, prior-authorisation rules, and federal nutrition standards.
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