Christopher Holt
As we near the end of President Trump’s term in office, it’s reasonable to turn to questions of legacy. The Trump Administration’s entire legacy, even just in the realm of health policy, is too much to bite off for one issue of the Weekly Checkup, but one observation does seem to stand out:
So many of the Trump Administration’s actions are likely to be short-lived. This isn’t a comment on the policies themselves, but instead on the way they have been enacted.
President Trump, like President Obama in the latter years of his presidency, has leaned heavily on executive action and rulemaking to implement his desired policy outcomes, but this method of policymaking comes at a cost, and that cost is durability.