Recently on a week’s evening, Ashley richards Helped with his 13 -year -old son, case, homework. He read the problems of mathematics and some reading, stating how much he has completed for autism in his school.
Richards has heard the Trump administration officials that suggest that Food dice And Pediatric vaccine The cause of autism and ADHD. That stance, he said, wrongly convicted the parents.
“There is no evidence to support this,” said a marketing director at Richards, 44, Richmond, Virginia. “As a parents, it is infamous.”
In their enthusiasm “Make America healthy again,” The Trump administration officials are expressing that some advocacy and medical groups say that patients and doctors have been portrayed who consider them partially responsible who are also responsible for them.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert f. Kennedy Junior. And the agency leaders have held responsible for chronic diseases and other medical issues such as autism, meditation-ghata/overdose disorder, depression, diabetes, and obesity-consumers and their lifestyle options, recorded interviews, social media statement and 15-hour review of federal reports.
He said at a news conference on 16 April that Autism is worthy of And those rates are increasing due to toxins in the environment, despite the lack of evidence.
He said, “These are children who will never pay taxes. They will never work. They will never play baseball. They will never write a poem. They will never go out on a date.” “Many of them will never use a toilet.”
Most people on the spectrum do not have serious challenges.
Statements are more than rhetoric. These approaches, from decisions about individual behaviors to criticism of the poor, are shaping policies that affect millions of people. The feelings behind the decisions are a factor Cut the medicidKeep federal insurance programs CoversAnd impose New obstacles for Kovid -19 vaccines For healthy people, public health leaders and doctors say. GOP MPs and federal health officials, they say, a disgusting stance towards chronic diseases and an estimated 129 million people in the US are influenced by them.
Robert Calif, who led the Food and Drug Administration during Obama and Biden administration, said, “This is a lot about our national problem with health.” “These are these two extreme views. It is every health decision ‘rugged person,’ vs. The other extreme attitude is all controlled by the social determinants of environment and health. The truth is this, it is on a continuity.”
Blame game
Self -reliance is a common theme among the followers of Maha, an informal movement for which Kennedy has made himself a fashion of the figure that promotes medical freedom, suspicion of vaccine, and focus on untrained therapy to treat the disease.
Taking medicine to manage diabetes? FDA Commissioner Marti Makeri suggested Fox News In late May, it would be effective to “treat more diabetes with” cooking classes, because “instead of just throwing insulin on people”.
People with type 1 diabetes should take insulin because their pancreas does not produce it, according to it National Institutes of HealthWhich also notes that many diabetes drugs also need to be taken with type 2 diabetes.
Taking birth control pills? Casey meansFor being the US Surgeon General, President Trump’s candidate has said that it is “insult to life” for short -term gains and efficiency.
“We are writing them like a candy,” He said last year “Tucker Carlson Show“Adding that birth control drugs” is truly closing hormones in the female body that makes this cyclical, life -giving nature of women. ,
Is there a child on ADHD Made? Callie meansWho is Kennedy’s advisor and KC means’ Brother, the show said on the same show that the aidarol is determined as the standard of care when children get a little fijool because they are in a sedentary environment with limited sunlight and eat too much ultrarapras food.
As a society, he said, “We are actually abusing hair on a large scale in many ways, and we are normalizing it and we are not speaking about it. And then we are stimulating people developed by Nazi Germany.”
Callie Means was probably referring to Parvitin, A Metallic In the Second World War, the forces of Adolf Hitler were given medicine. Aciderall is a prescription drug that contains amphetamine, is a stimulant not the same In the form of Mentalfetamine.
The Department of Health and Human Services did not respond to the messages seeking comments from the means.
Some conservative and great followers argue that people need to take more responsibility for their health. But comments that blame patients and physicians promote stigma, promote the spread of misinformation, and destroy confidence in modern medicine, medical groups, doctors and patient advocacy groups say.
Statements assume that consumers and patients have control over improvement of their health and prevent chronic disease, when reality is more complex, according to some public health leaders. People with low -income, they say, often lack access to grocery stores and healthy food, can have too much jobs for time to cook with scratches, and can live in dangerous areas where it is difficult to go out and exercise.
Zerome adamsDuring the previous Trump administration, the Surgeon General told KFF Health News that he was worried that with efforts to promote health, “the return of vaccine-corresponding diseases, the health care system would have to increase mistrust in the health and reduce the tearing of social support which are important to make a healthy option.”
Strict thing
Trump’s approach organized by top health officials has influenced policy decisions, saying some doctors and public health leaders.
Kennedy and other Trump administration health leaders are particularly vocal, targeting issues they consider to be particularly egoistic in recent federal tasks, research or policy.
For example, Biden administration proposed a rule In November, the Medicare will let the weight loss drugs such as Vegvi and Zepbounds cover. But Kennedy and other political appointments in HHS and its agencies have criticized drugs and people taking them.
“I think it’s so dark,” Callie means Told CarlsonMention of weight loss drugs. “I think it is like a strangulation on the American population, almost to unite that the idea is a magic pill.”
He said: “Hey parents, maybe we should not feed our children toxic food?”
Kennedy has also criticized medicines and people who use them, saying in October. Fox News That drug manufacturer “relying on selling it to Americans because we are very foolish and accustomed to drugs.”
In April, the Trump administration announced that it would not finalize the Biden-era coverage rules.
Andrea Love, a science communication organization, a biomedical scientist and founder of the immunological founder, said, “It is impressing the kind of care and treatments that Andrea Love, a science communication organization and the founder of the Immunological, said.” This is that it is your mistake. It is very afflicted-is heartbroken. This creates the idea that scientific progress is devil, displays things that are individually not harming health, while avoiding addressing systemic issues that play a very big role in health. “
Kennedy and HHS did not return the message seeking comment.
Data shows that drugs are effective. Those who took The highest dose of zepbound Clinical trials lost an average of 48 pounds, and lost 25% of 1 58 pounds out of 3 at that dose or 25% of their body weight.
Kennedy and other agency leaders also oppose the health restrictions and rules of many covid-era. Some doctors and public health leaders noted that these officials reduced the Kovid risks by criticizing the vaccines developed during the previous Trump administration.
Kennedy has said that those who died of Kovid were actually victims of chronic diseases like obesity, diabetes or asthma.
“It really killed them,” Kennedy said “Dr. Phil primetime“In April.” These were people who were so ill that they were originally hanging from a rock, and Kovid came together and stamped their fingers and left them. But they were already living life which were the burden of disease. ,
The underlying cause of death was more than Kovid 940,000 people An open-access Journal on Biomedical Sciences published by the American Medical Association, Jama Network, according to a 2023 report in Jama Network, in the US from August 1, 2021 to 31 August, 2022 in the US, in the US, in the US, 31 July, 2022.
Based on the report, Kovid stood first in the deaths due to infectious or respiratory diseases for youth under 19 years of age. Infants under one year of age may be more risk of experiencing a serious illness than Kovid than older children, studies showAnd the risk is also more for infants under 6 months of age and people with underlying medical conditions.
,Vaccination during pregnancy According to the CDC, “can help protect infants after birth.
But kennedy Announced in May The federal government will no longer recommend covid vaccines for pregnant people and children which are healthy. Medical groups such as the American Academy of Pediatrics opposed the decision and filed a lawsuit.
Kennedy also helped to promote beliefs that many childless adults on the Medicid do not work for adults, low-income people, do not work and thus drain resources from the program.
In the May hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Kennedy said that the program is “not working because of all the competent people who are not working” [or] In search of jobs. ,
It is a scene hugging by Republican MPs, who depicted adults enrolled in Medicid as lazy or shirking, as they upgraded a budget bill, which was estimated to cut federal expenses in the program from about 1 trillion dollars in a decade, which partially imposes. Work requirements On many adult beneficiaries.
Louisiana House Majority Leader Steve Scallice said, “Thirty -five -year -old children are sitting at home playing video games, they will now have to get a job.”
Law, which Mr. Trump Signed in law This month, by 2034, there will be about 10 million more people without health insurance, Congress budget office is estimated,
Some health leaders who criticized the law say that the statements incorrectly dismissed the medicid enroll, who could not have high-devotional jobs by the law and remain in the program.
However, in 2023, about two-thirds of adults between the age of 19 to 64, covered by Medicid, were working. For about 3 in 10, careful responsibilities, a disease or disability, or the school’s presence stopped them from working, According to kFFHealth policy organization that includes KFF Health News.
Family USA Executive Director Anthony Wright said, “It is using anti-welfare trops for one thing that is basic health care, not cash benefits.” He briefly presented the Republican message: “We are going to make it difficult to get your help by putting a bunch of paperwork, and if you don’t get it, it’s your fault.”
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