"Sabotage": Experts, lawmakers blast RFK Jr. for destroying healthcare research
Under RFK Jr., the research agency working to fix it is, too.
Under RFK Jr., the research agency working to fix it is, too.
The short version
- The federal agency tasked with studying ways to improve America’s outstandingly poor healthcare system is “on the brink,” experts warn.
- The Trump administration has cut its staff by 75 percent, canceled its grants en masse, and is refusing to spend tens of millions of dollars appropriated by Congress.
- Whether the agency “will survive the second Trump administration is an open question,” health policy experts Aaron Carroll and David Atkins wrote in an opinion piece published today in the Annals of Internal Medicine .
What happened
The agency in question is the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), which has focused on ways to improve patient safety, healthcare quality, care delivery, and new technologies and practices since the 1990s. In the past, “Republican leaders recognized that health care disparities were fundamental quality problems,” Carroll and Atkins wrote.
Why it matters
But recently, disparities in care have become partisan issues.
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