American Medical Association is expressing “deep concern” after another Report Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy is planning to remove all members of the US Preventive Services Task Force.
The task force, also known as the USPSTF, is a panel of independent medical experts, whose recommendations help guide the limits of the decisions of insurance companies and doctors, such as a limit of preventive health measures such as cancer and diabetes Choker Also HIV and cholesterol drugs.
In a letter posted on Sunday, the AMA – the largest association of doctors in the US – addressed Kennedy on a report published on Friday in the Wall Street Journal. The WSJ story cited sources familiar with the case that Kennedy plans to dismiss the members of the task force as he also sees them as “waking up”.
“The USPSTF plays an important, non-Pakistani efforts to direct the efforts of physicians to prevent the efforts of doctors and to ensure access to evidence-based clinical preventive services,” plays an important, non-Pakistani role in efforts to improve the health of patients, ” Ama’s letter Said. “In this way, we urge you to maintain the first appointed members of the USPSTF and be committed to the long -standing process of regular meetings to ensure that their important work can continue without interruption.”
In a statement of CBS News on Friday, a spokesperson of HHS said, “No final decision has been taken on how to better support USPSTF HHS mandate to make the US healthy again.”
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The task force was created More than 40 years ago, but its work gave additional importance after the passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010. The law requires health insurers and group health schemes to provide preventive services that are recommended by the task force without paying co-payments, deductions or other cost-sharing fees on patients.
In June, the US Supreme Court retained the structure of the task force, but decided that its members are “inferior officers” who could be. “Removable in Will” By HHS Secretary. As the case was played, non-profit organizations warned the Supreme Court that ending cost-sharing for services such as breast cancer screening or HIV-Roktham drugs would prevent patients from demanding medical care.
Last month, Kennedy fired all 17 members Advisory Committee for Vaccination PracticeAlso known as ACIP, a separate government panel vaccine recommendations. Later he named Eight new advisorsHe has worked closely over the years, including several colleagues and some members have worked with a history as vaccine critics.
Read the full letter of AMA below:
Read the full letter of AMA below:
Melissa Quinn contributed to this report.
