FDA Commissioner says American healthcare system breaks budget with late-stage treatment over proactivity, citing MAHA commission report as discussion cornerstone at Senate hearing

Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Martin Makary says in testimony at a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies budget hearing for fiscal year 2026 that the healthcare system was breaking the budget, resulting in inflation, burdening businesses, and representing the number one cause of household bankruptcy through medical bills, with no one talking about the root cause of actively deteriorating population health, necessitating movement from reactionary healthcare system playing whack a mole with treatments to proactive discussion of root causes and why other countries did not see these problems.