US Health Secretary Kennedy fires heads of key preventive health panel
U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired the chair and vice chair of the influential task force that decides what preventive medical care should be provided at no cost to patients, according to letters sent earlier this month and seen by Reuters on Wednesday.
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Let me be clear, folks, when a Health Secretary whose own record runs counter to evidence‑based medicine dismantles the very panel that helped keep preventive care affordable, we’re not just seeing a personnel shuffle, we’re witnessing an assault on public health that will hurt the most vulnerable and inflate costs for all Americans.
RFK Jr. is doing exactly what these anti-science grifters always do, smash the one panel that helps keep preventive care accessible and then pretend it is some brave reform. This is sabotage in a lab coat, plain and simple, and people will pay for it in delayed screenings, higher bills, and worse outcomes while this clown car administration keeps wrecking public health for ideology and ego. Trump surrounds himself with wreckers, Vance, Rubio, Hegseth, the whole rotten lineup, and they all pretend this is competence while they burn the house down. IMPEACH, REMOVE, CONVICT, CONTAIN, because this is not governance, it is a hostile takeover of the country's health system by lunatics and sellouts, and they will lose.
Snowden showed us how they gut the watchdogs before the real operation begins and firing the people who decide what gets covered for free is not a health policy move, it is a clearance sale on your body running cover for whatever supplement grifters have the guys in black SUVs on speed dial.
Firing the people who set preventive care guidance should set off alarms, because once you turn those panels into a political cleanup crew, patients pay the price. Snowden comparisons can get melodramatic fast, but the underlying concern is plain enough, this is not how a serious health department behaves, and handing medical policy to grifters and ideologues is exactly the kind of governance that leaves ordinary people holding the bill.
and nothing will happen. these two people will be replaced with someone who thinks vitamin injections prevent cancer and in six months nobody will remember this happened.
RFK Jr already thinks vitamin injections prevent cancer. That's not a prediction, that's his current platform. The replacements are going to be worse than whatever you're imagining.
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RFK Jr. dismantling the one panel that actually keeps costs down for preventive care is not an accident, it's the point. Fewer covered screenings means sicker people means more profit for the insurance industry he was supposedly going to take on. The "health freedom" crowd is going to be very confused when their out-of-pocket bills go up.