Will president elect Donald Trump this weekend unveiled his choices to lead the nation's top public health agencies.

Tapping doctor Marty MacQuarrie, a surgeon at Johns Hopkins in Maryland, to lead the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Former Florida congressman Doctor Dave Weldon to serve as the director of the CDC.

And Fox News medical contributor Doctor Jeanette Nesher.

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All three positions, of course, require Senate confirmation.

The flurry of cabinet picks follows Trump's decision to select Robert F Kennedy Jr to serve as the nation's top post as secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and choosing doctor Mehmet Oz, most widely known for hosting the Doctor Oz Show, until launching a failed Senate bid in 2022.

He's been tapped to lead the centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or CMS.

For more on what Trump's picks say about the administration's approach to public health and what it will mean for people here in new Jersey, I'm joined by our health care writer, Lilo Stainton.

Toledo, you've been talking to folks across the gamut when it comes to public health in new Jersey.

What largely is their reaction to the folks that the president elect has tapped?

So far to lead these, you know, very large and important agencies?

Yeah.

I mean, you know, a lot of the people that I've talked to, people who are scientists, public health professionals, physicians, nurses, you know, have concerns about some of these names, but they also, you know, take a pause.

And one of the things I hear a lot is a lot of public health is actually controlled by the state.

Big systems like Medicaid are controlled by the state, not Medicare.

But, you know, once again, living in new Jersey, where, you know, the governor and the legislature have put in place certain protections for health care.

We are likely to see less change than there might be in other states.

But however, you know, the big concern is the funding, right?

And even if they make regulatory changes, requirements or suggestions at the top, the real question comes down to what we get funding wise.

Any idea from the folks you've spoken to about what these leaders of the departments would prioritize?

We've heard a lot about bringing down costs of prescriptions.

Trump on the campaign trail talked about that quite a bit, but also deregulation.

Do we have any sense where these folks are coming from?

Yeah.

I mean, there are a couple of things that I hear repeatedly, right?

So if you have, if RFK Jr is in charge of, of Health and Human Services and he has concerns about vaccines, he might try to relax, vaccine requirements that exist.

But again, much of that is public is public health that falls under state control.

So maybe they would defund a program to support vaccine delivery that could have a big impact.

Untold 40% nationwide of children, not infants, but children getting their, you know, back to school shots.

Our through, a free program that is funded by the federal government.

That's a big concern.

Federally qualified health care centers.

You know, if you're in administration that that is less folk, that is more focused on, middle upper class folks, capitalism, you might invest less in federally qualified health centers, which primarily serve people without insurance.

A big concern.

It's sort of just because of the dollar numbers.

Are these these giant subsidies that have been provided not for people who are very poor, but for working class folks who buy insurance through the marketplace in new Jersey.

That's 400,000 people.

They've been able to get really pretty decent plans at less than $10 a month.

Yeah, so unbelievably low.

Those subsidies are extremely expensive.

They're due to expire in the coming years.

If those go away, that could be, you know, the end of, health insurance for hundreds of thousands of people.

So in new Jersey, I know you're sort of dissecting each of these picks.

You zoomed in on Doctor Oz, who's been tapped to lead CMS.

What can you tell us briefly about what that might look like in New Jersey?

Yeah.

Again, he he would oversee Medicaid and Medicare.

There's regulatory things around nursing homes and hospitals.

People suggest you could see more sort of lean toward privatization, which is already happening in Medicare.

Another thing I hear a lot about, as new Jersey is really leaned into both private sector and public sector, into social determinants of health, hospitals investing in housing and food programs, clinics providing food programs that kind of funding and support for those kinds of things could really be dried up.

How long that takes to impact new Jersey is kind of a question.

Lilo, thanks so much.

We'll be talking again soon.

Thanks very.