Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has ousted the leadership of a key expert panel that determines which preventive care services Americans can access for free.
Kennedy’s purge of the two leaders of the Preventive Services Task Force comes after he called the panel “lackadaisical and negligent” last month, telling lawmakers he intended to install new members “who have a clear mission.”
The influential task force decides which medical services, like mammograms, colonoscopies, and depression screenings, insurers must fully cover. But Kennedy, 72, has hamstrung the task force by indefinitely postponing its last three meetings and allowing several seats to lapse without replacement, according to The New York Times. Half of the 16 seats are unfilled, CNN reports.
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