Why MAHA Must Keep Conservative Roots

For over two years now, the MAHA movement led by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has attracted some unlikely bedfellows. Everyone – from religious homeschool moms to more hippy food-as-medicine advocates – has filled rooms to try to find solutions to America’s chronic disease epidemic. But sometimes the tent grows so big that it invites people whose ideas are completely at odds with the movement’s original priorities.

The goal of healthier Americans should be fairly bipartisan, but the means to achieve it, and the underlying philosophies that drive it, can differ. Technocrats and transhumanists offer interesting solutions to the mechanisms of our dysfunctional healthcare system, such as updated systems for patient records and data collection. However, true and lasting reform requires solutions rooted in more conservative moral worldviews that maintain the natural order of God’s design.