Robert Kennedy’s nomination for the Head Health and Human Services (HHS) for the Senate hearing is set to begin next Wednesday.. Still, Donald Trump is not waiting for his candidate to confirm his candidate before starting a full -fledged war on public health.
For weeks now, some Democrats have temporarily expressed hopes that the vaccine refuses and the former Democrat will not be so bad, pointing to Kennedy’s statements about promoting healthy food As proof that it can have good features. Kennedy’s critics pointed out that empty rhetoric about nutrition and exercise is a standard fraud trick for anti -vaccine workers. It is designed to find out their hatred “reasonable”, but this is proof, as is evidence of not being interested in doing any special work to improve the health of the public.
Kennedy’s shakes are being faster.
McDonald’s favorite Trump has not even indicated a signal of “better school lunch”, but also on the real meat of Kennedy’s agenda-fighting every war against public health services-Trump moves the whole steam forward. There are One of the first proceedings in his post was to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization (WHO), which Trump hated 2020, when he color the Covid 19 pandemic disease as “cheating” Keep offending the efforts. Kennedy hated her even taller, and Not just because of opposition to global vaccination campaigns Which saves countless lives. He and his organizing partners fought to prevent the spread of HIV, improve access to birth, or to protect health care for people with gay people. Does Kennedy declined to accept that HIV causes AIDSInstead blaming what he imagines is the choice of “lifestyle” in gay men, although, although, Globally, most HIV positive people are women and girls.
As many people warned, Kennedy’s priority will never become “healthy food”, but ensuring that infectious diseases can easily spread home and abroad. On the “home” front, Trump has already begun Kennedy’s agenda, which is aimed at a virus. As science reported, Trump imposed A large number of restrictions on the National Institutes of Health (NIH), “including the sudden cancellation of meetings, including grant review panels. Officials have also ordered communication breaks, freezing of jobs and indefinite ban on travel.”
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Cancellations can eliminate a large number of annual research grants, which can slow down or prevent key studies in the treatment and prevention of disease. This is also in line with Kennedy’s clear enmity with any scientist who is working to prevent infectious disease. When he was still a stunt candidate for the president, Kennedy spoke at the Anti -vaccine conference And promised, when he was in charge of NIH, “We have been going to break the infectious disease for almost eight years.” Which meant that it would prevent research on the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases. Trump is throwing Trump into the NIH ability to fund infectious disease research, such as the first step of the Kennedy Scheme to dispose of medical infrastructure to protect people from such diseases.
Kennedy’s strange hatred for germs is not the only thing in the anti -health agenda. An HHS -powered website that exposes American women about their reproductive rights On Monday, Trump was taken down just hours after the oath of office. The site just did not help women to learn that it is still legal to do so. He assured women that controlling birth is still legal and that it is essential for most insurance projects to cover it. Kennedy Sometimes the noise of choosing in publicBut his actions show that he is in accordance with religious right on the issue. He is meeting with anti -election Republicans and appears to be amended On their thoughts he is Indicates the willingness to go with a project of Project 2025 To eliminate the FDA approval of the abortion pill.
All of this seems like an inward policy for most Americans, but it is linked to anti -health agenda that can dramatically affect millions of people’s ability to take care of basic health care. New York Times reported Thursday That the Congress’s “Republican is passing around a vast menu of ideas to meet the cost of large -scale tax deductions and immigration crackdown bills.” In the upper part of the list? What do they expect can be a deduction of $ 100 billion for Medicide, A program that now covers 1 out of 5 of 5. Similarly, the billionaire Elon Musk, with his suspicious “Government Performance” study group, Eye -in -the -counter deductions in experienced affairsAs a way to reduce taxes for rich people like yourself.
The programs are incredibly popular, which has developed a political firewall that can tank millions of health care plans. But the enmity of Trump and musk with federal employees is already hurting. On Thursday, Veterans Affairs were forced to release a waiver from the White House’s Federal Hiring Freezing for the Department’s Health Care positions after anger and panic. In another satisfactory moments of the week, this fact also felt the influence of mega John Basham, Who took on Twitter to request his wife’s nursing job offers to restoreWhich was initially withdrawn from Trump’s order.
It is good to see someone who deserves his misery fully, but unfortunately, it points to a major problem: It will interfere with the lives of people who rely on federal funds. – It is not as if Trump won’t care, regardless of how much his voters are roaming on Twitter.
Trump also signed an executive order this week President Joe Biden’s many common pharmaceutical pharmaceuticals to eliminate successful efforts to reduce prices. Drug costs are related to a thread that connects Kennedy and Trump’s views with each other: health care should be the honor of wealthy, not the basic human rights. Kennedy’s vague words about healthy eating can look good on paper. In practice, he is setting an excuse to refuse to access health care to low -income people, saying he deserves to be ill because he assumes that they don’t take care of themselves – This is why Kennedy is not only opposed to vaccines, but there is a confession of infectious disease. When the disease is caused by the virus, it is very difficult to blame the victim. If he has confirmed the HHS, this attitude will prevail. Talks about healthy eating will certainly not translate people into helping people access better. It would be an excuse to blame people’s “lifestyle” when the public health decline on Kennedy’s watch.
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