Trump Has Created Health-Care Chaos
The White House’s health-care strategy appears to be no strategy at all.
Kristen V. Brown
Kristen V. Brown is a staff writer at The Atlantic. Kristen's podcast series on America’s rising vaccine hesitancy, Doubt, earned a Signal award and a Webby nomination. Before joining The Atlantic, she was a reporter for Bloomberg, Gizmodo, Fusion, and the San Francisco Chronicle. At The Atlantic, she covers health and science.
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