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Health and medical groups around the country are bracing for another grievous blow to America's infrastructure of evidence-based health, this time targeting preventive medicine.

Earlier this week, health secretary and ardent anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. abruptly canceled a meeting of the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), a scientifically independent panel of up to 16 volunteer experts that issues rigorous, evidence-based recommendations on preventive care—on everything from colonoscopies to folic acid supplements in pregnancy. The panel uses a highly transparent and rigorous framework, grading recommendations on an A to D scale. Recommendations with an A or B grade are adopted nationwide, and health insurance plans are required to cover them at no cost to patients.

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[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 hours ago

The preventive care portion of the ACA was recently upheld. But who decides what is considered preventative… and now what are they doing to said panel….

[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

I grow more convinced every day that one of the explicit goals of the Trump regime is to kill people.

It's not just that the combination of greed, self-interest and overt mental illness on display in the regime leads to deaths, but that, at some level, there's a very deliberate goal of killing people (notably minorities - gender and sexual as well as ethnic and racial), and that the specific lunatics put into specific positions - most obviously Kennedy - are there because their brains are broken in such a way that even left to their own devices, they'll kill people.

[–] vividspecter@aussie.zone 9 points 3 hours ago

It's at least partly eugenics, which is a common undercurrent in the anti-vaccine movement. Remove healthcare altogether and only the "strongest" will survive.

[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 14 points 4 hours ago

Not-rich simply do not matter to these people. Especially for this fucking Kennedy reject. He's always hated the rabble.

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago

They're fascists, of course they want to kill people

[–] Red0ctober@lemmy.world 8 points 5 hours ago

Aw shit, here we go again