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The need-to-know this week
On Tuesday, HCA Healthcare and Centene hold quarterly earnings calls.
Also Tuesday, the National Organization for Rare Disorders’ Breakthrough Summit will feature the heads of the FDA and NIH.
On Wednesday, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will stump for Iowa GOP gubernatorial candidate Zach Lahn. (More on that below.)
Also Wednesday, outgoing White House senior adviser Calley Means is scheduled for a fireside chat at Tufts’ Food is Medicine Institute.
On Thursday, Tenet Healthcare and Community Health Systems hold earnings calls.
Kennedy’s final campaign push
My colleague Chelsea Cirruzzo wrote last month that the Iowa gubernatorial race would be the biggest test of Kennedy’s influence in the midterms.
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