by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Secretary for Health and Human Services, plans to be reported to remove all members of an influential Task Force for Health, which determines which insurers of the preventive care services have to cover free of charge after they have removed all members of a vaccination advisory committee last month.
Kennedy would like to clean the Task Force of the US Preventive Services because he believes that his 16 members are too “woken up”. The Wall Street Journal reported.
According to the law on affordable care from 2010, the Task Force gives evidence-based, public recommendations for a variety of treatments that are HIV prevention for the prenatal care of mental health that insurers must cover free of charge for patients.
Health and human services said that the secretary did not make a final decision on the task force. The independent contacted the agency for a comment.
Kennedys reported dissatisfaction with the group comes after the American conservative The magazine accused the Task Force to be a “solemn corner of Woke Bureacracy” at the beginning of this month.
“The Task Force is appointed with bidges administration that have devoted itself to the ideological recording of medicine,” argued the author and pointed out to “dark” actions by the latest task force, which committed to eliminating racist inequalities in health care and the use of integrative language around gender.
At the beginning of this month, a meeting of the Task Force was postponed in July.
At that time, a letter from over 100 health organizations warned of politicizing the work of the Task Force.
“The loss of trustworthiness in the strict and impartial work of the Task Force would falsify patients, hospital systems and payers as misinformation in order to create access to life -saving and inexpensive care,” the letter said.
“If something works well and informs the doctors about how to take care of their patients, it makes no sense to postpone the work of the task force,” said Dr. Bobby Mukkamala, President of the American Medical Association, said to The New York Times After the meeting was postponed. “This flies to the face of what is good for the country’s health.”
In June, the Supreme Court confirmed the ability of the Task Force, in view of a challenge for individuals and companies that lean against the recommendation of the body regarding the HIV prevention medications, to recommend free reporting for preventive services.
The concern about the fate of the Task Force comes after Kennedy removed all members of a vaccine advisory committee and replaced it by some members who share the secretary’s skepticism of vaccine.
