RFK Jr. names 8 new members to influential preventive medicine task force
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美国卫生部长小罗伯特·肯尼迪宣布为美国预防服务工作组新增8名成员。该工作组共16人，负责就抑郁症筛查、他汀类药物使用、结肠镜和乳腺X光检查等预防医学服务提出基于证据的建议，其A或B级建议决定保险公司是否需免费覆盖相关服务。肯尼迪此前一年多未任命新成员并取消会议，今年5月还解雇两名负责人，引发外界对该独立小组可能被意识形态盟友影响的担忧。
Anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced the names of eight new members of a 16-person federal task force intended to make scientifically independent, evidence-based recommendations on an array of preventive medicine services for Americans—from depression screening to statin use, colonoscopies, and mammograms.
Recommendations from the panel—the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF)—don't simply provide guidance for Americans; they also determine access. The USPSTF is supposed to use a rigorous, transparent framework for evaluating evidence and sets graded recommendations on an A to D scale. Health insurance providers are required to cover, at no cost, all preventive services that are given recommendations given an A or B grade.
Kennedy has sidelined the USPSTF for more than a year, canceling its meetings and refusing to appoint new members as terms expired and members left. In May, Kennedy also fired two leaders, sparking outcry and exacerbating fears that he would corrupt the nonpartisan, independent panel by stacking it with unqualified, ideological-allies—which he did with an influence vaccine advisory committee at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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