“A major flu outbreak has sickened nearly 160 troops at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas less than two months after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that U.S. troops would no longer be required to be vaccinated for the flu, defense officials said.” And since that report, the flu has spread. Who could have predicted that? Well, anyone competent, which lets out the Toddler and Hegseth.
“At HHS, disability education would fall under the oversight of an agency head, Kennedy, who has spent decades spreading disinformation about autism and villainizing autistic people.”
“PEPFAR has provided over $8 billion to South Africa since its founding under President George W. Bush. South Africa has about 8 million people living with HIV, the most in the world.” The Toddler is killing the program. On top of which “states and health organizations are waiting for $211 million in grants to grow their 988 suicide hotline capacities, $75 million to build out global disease outbreak response, $3 million to build treatment centers for opioid addiction and $95 million for programs that “improve the overall performance of the public health system.” Thank the Toddler Administration’s new grant-review system.
“Measles running rampant, public health destroyed, a trillion dollars ripped from Medicaid, inadequate physician payment, stupid immigration rules,” — why many American doctors want the AMA to stand up to Republicans.
“Republicans are calling on federal authorities to impose stringent regulations on the abortion drug mifepristone, citing the dangers posed by the drug’s largely unregulated use to Americans’ drinking water. A coalition of 15 red state attorneys general is urging the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to add mifepristone to the agency’s Contaminant Candidate List, which would likely trigger safety studies and potentially stricter regulations under the Safe Drinking Water Act.” This is a bullshit excuse for regulating mifepristone — especially coming from the party that’s otherwise buddy-buddy with all polluters.
“there have been times where I’ve dropped these and, and caused panic because, you know, need to find the drug, because you’ve just dropped a thousand dollars that might be now behind a couch or, you know, down a drain or something like that.” — a look at how one cancer-drug manufacturer staved off generic versions so they could keep selling a 28 cent pill for $1,000.
“U.S. health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is pursuing federal government access to most Americans’ medical records, in a quest to research a link between vaccines and autism — a connection the medical establishment studied for decades and flatly rejects.” Like we should trust anyone in this administration with our personal info.
“FDA leaders under President Trump are moving to abandon a decades-old policy of asking outside experts to review drug applications, a move critics say would shield the agency’s decisions from public scrutiny.”
“We believe that 35% roughly of the people that are using the Affordable Care Act are not legit because they have never filed a claim.” — RFK’s fellow crackpot Mehmet Oz.
“The Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine and gene therapy official resigned on Tuesday after a public campaign against him led by the right-wing influencer Laura Loomer” — another person who should have zero influence on public policy.
The Administration has good goals on paper about fighting addiction but accomplishing them “will be difficult in the face of the administration’s mass layoffs of federal employees, cancellation of research and community grants, attacks on organizations and practices that serve people who use drugs, and cuts to Medicaid, the state-federal health insurance program for low-income people that is the largest payer for addiction and mental health care nationwide.
I suppose it’s no surprise the administration is also gutting HIV research.
“Officials at the Food and Drug Administration have blocked publication of several studies supporting the safety of widely used vaccines against Covid-19 and shingles” I imagine they’d like to do the same to studies that say the shingles vax can reduce the risk of dementia.
Covid vaccine has heart-health benefits too. However RFK Jr. is focused on the real threat to our health — the crimes of Dr. Fauci! Which are non-existent. And in this case some of his evidence is coming from crackpot ex-head of intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, who it now appears says whatever her cult leader tells her to. No, not the Toddler, a literal cult leader.
“The Trump administration is proposing to scrap a dozen quality measures for Medicare Advantage plans and not move forward with a Biden administration plan to reward insurers that improve the health of low-income and disabled enrollees” — I’m sure that will work as well as all the other anti-regulatory moves from Republicans over the decades.
RFK Jr. has announced a new podcast “to name the names of the forces that obstruct the paths to public health,” I imagine he won’t be admitting the Toddler and himself are prominent among such forces. Just look at what would happen if Kennedy gets his wish to eliminate vaccines. And CBS news head Bari Weiss is willing to help.
