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RFK Jr. Wants To Remake Another Key Health Panel

The future of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force is in question amid criticism from the health secretary.
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A healthcare professional points to mammogram images displayed on medical monitors, examining breast imaging scans for diagnostic purposes.
Dr. Olena Weaver, an associate professor in the Department of Breast Imaging at the MD Anderson Cancer Center, looks at mammogram imagery on September 26, 2024. (Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. forced major shifts in federal policy over the last year toward his personal anti-vaccine views, dismantling an immunization advisory panel and filling it with allies. Now physicians, medical groups, and lawmakers fear he may run the same playbook on another federal guidance body, compromising recommendations that primary care doctors rely on and that inform no-cost insurance coverage requirements for tens of millions of Americans.

Grayson Logue is a staff writer for The Dispatch and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Prior to joining the company in 2023, he worked in political risk consulting, helping advise Fortune 50 companies. He was also an assistant editor at Providence Magazine and is a graduate student at the University of Edinburgh, pursuing a Master’s degree in history. When Grayson is not writing pieces for the website, he is probably working hard to reduce the number of balls he loses on the golf course.

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