Marc Short served as director of legislative affairs for President Donald Trump. He is the chairman of Advancing American Freedom.
When the Founding Fathers drafted the Constitution, they didn’t 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.