Reverend Paul Brandeis Rauschenbusch

Thank you and God bless you for being here.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Hello.

Good evening, people.

It's been quite a marathon, right?

I am Dr. Troy Jacobs.

I am a pediatrician.

I have also been doubly lucky for 17 of those years to work

as a medical doctor at the U.S.

Agency for International Development, working in both disasters and regular times, improving healthcare efficiency and effectiveness around the world.

Unfortunately, this all came to an abrupt end in February of 2025 when I was in Ethiopia while ensuring that life-saving child healthcare

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health confusion tax on families.

I see these disruptions and what they mean to families, including my own.

But increasingly, this is what the current administration expects of American families.

We need to come out of the cold and darkness of the last year.

and double down on eliminating the administration's health confusion tax, we need to return to good science, evidence-based guidance, and good practice.

And this includes including humans in the loop, people like parents, pediatricians, nurses, and other child health providers, so that we have a place where pediatricians, nurses, and parents are not overburdened