{"id":487726,"date":"2026-03-21T13:59:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T13:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/487726\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T13:59:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T13:59:07","slug":"opinion-casey-means-as-surgeon-general-her-nomination-underscores-a-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/487726\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | Casey Means as surgeon general? Her nomination underscores a problem."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"AZ2TXIVOUJAKJHHD6SSFUNNERQ\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Marc Short served as director of legislative affairs for President Donald Trump. He is the chairman of Advancing American Freedom.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"IEC5DKHATBFDBJZAAUVPBYVNUY\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">When the Founding Fathers drafted the Constitution, they didn\u2019t see fit to create an office of surgeon general. It probably never occurred to them that the nation needed a government-appointed chief medical expert swaggering around in a naval uniform. They would surely have questioned the wisdom of giving a single, politically connected individual a state-sanctioned platform to make pronouncements about medicine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marc Short served as director of legislative affairs for President Donald Trump. He is the chairman of Advancing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,162920,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-487726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-partner-exclude","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}